PADDY KENNEDY

Oh, paddy ecosystem. Yes.

There's soil in the rice paddy.

My 1.7 acre rice paddy completely failed.

PADDY KENNEDY You know, Will Shakespeare was right.

This is not paddy soil, this is humus.

In other words, we would destroy the paddy ecosystem.

Besides, there are lots of weeds in the paddy,

And every year, 99.9 percent of the paddy is transplanted manually.

Now, let me talk with Mr. Kawaguchi in his paddy field.

As a result, what is going on here in your paddy?

To take paddy for example, rice plants and weeds are one.

Some often say, like it's a good paddy clear of weeds but...

Oh, ones that come right out of the rice paddy are like that?

PADDY KENNEDY The third point, particularly in English and particularly in North American

Oh, the seedlings taken from the seedbed will be planted to the paddy?

This time, I had kept backup seedlings at a corner of my paddy.

If we look at rice plants growing in a paddy, there's oneness without distinction.

The rice that you ate in the lunch, and you will eat today, is transplanted by women bending in a very awkward posture, millions of them, every season, in the paddy season, when they transplant paddy with their feet in the water.

So, according to the character of each crop, according to the condition of each paddy, we have to respond accordingly.

25 years since starting Natural Farming, the paddy soil surface that hasn't been plowed has a layer about four inch thick.

And then some of them, back their home, rent some paddy or rent some field, and start this method of farming?

Paddy Ashdown, who was the grand high nabob of Bosnia to the United Nations, in his book about his experience, he said,

And in a rice paddy, a lot of life forms, including creatures and plants, forming a unity, forming one body, they are living.

In 30, 50 years back, it was nothing, only paddy fields, and since we invited him here, he felt that he has got a responsibility.

These are dead leaves of weeds and rice plant as well as dead bodies of bugs that lived in the rice paddy that accumulated together.

PADDY KENNEDY The only way you can develop an ear is to listen to the way in which native speakers of any language are speaking and begin to imitate.

I was in Shanghai, in an office block built on what was a rice paddy five years ago one of the 2,500 skyscrapers they've built in Shanghai in the last 10 years.

It depends on whether we can solve the environmental problems though, but even without going out in the field, without farming, everybody can be enlightened because, I myself is a living being, doing life's work just the same way as this paddy does, and as the true nature that enable everything to exist, and as the biosphere, similar life's work is going on in my body.