My philosophy is rooted in two ancient Greek concepts. The first one is dictated by Hippocrates, the father of Medicine, who declared the famous phrase “let the food be your medicine and your medicine be the food”. Today the vast majority of human illnesses (an estimated 80%) are linked to bad food we consume every day.
The second concept is depicted by the Greek word “symbiosis” meaning “living together”. This planet is the living space of a vast majority of species other than humans. No one has given us the right to declare some of them as bad or harmful and even more the power to eradicate them. If we start declaring some of them as bad and had the ability to eradicate them from the face of earth, in a very short time, we will find ourselves alone in this planet! Nothing else than us will fly, swim or walk on this planet! Our extinction will follow pretty soon. Instead, humans are in great need of nature. Nature does not require our presence!
It is to our benefit to establish a system of food production where the farmer or rather the tender and keeper of the fragile soil and other resources will try through synergies with all other elements of nature to produce his/her food. Declaring wars and spreading death through pesticides, herbicides and all the other biocides, will not provide us with the kind of food we need to nourish the human body and spirit.
Those two principles are followed in the last nine colored books I have written so far (Taking Care of the Soil, Farming with Beneficial Microorganisms, Olive trees, sustainable production of walnuts, sustainable production of almonds, and home vegetable gardens) which unfortunately are written in Greek.