"If the farming season is not interfered with, there will be grain more than enough. If close nets are not used in deep ponds, there will be fishes and turtles more than enough. If axes are used in forests at the proper time, there will be wood more than enough.

If the seasons of husbandry be not interfered with, the grain will be more than can be eaten. If dose nets are not allowed to enter the pools and ponds, the fishes and turtles will be more than can be consumed. If the axes and bills enter the hills and forests only at the proper time, the wood will be more than can be used.

If the time for tilling be not meddled with, there will be more grain than can be eaten; if close nets do not enter the pools and ponds, there will be more fish and turtle than can be eaten; if axes and bills enter the hills and woods in season, there wil

Look - when growing seasons aren’t ignored, people have more grain than they can eat. When ponds aren't plundered with fine-weave nets, people have more fish and turtles than they can eat. When mountain forests are cut according to their seasons, people have more timber than they can use.

Do not interfere with the time of the husbandman, and you will have more grain than you can consume. Let not narrow nets be employed in the muddy ponds, and you will have a superabundance of fish. Let the axe enter the forest at the proper season, and you will be overstocked with wood.