If we don't get sustainability right in agriculture first…

Sustainability: It's the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do, it's the profitable thing to do.

— Hunter Lovins

Sara Scherr and Jeff McNeely have given us a thoughtful, sensible book about a topic of great importance to the world. There is no…

— Ismail Serageldin

Permaculture is not the movement of sustainability and it is not the philosophy behind it; it is the problem-solving approach the movement and the…

— Toby Hemenway

Sustainability is a political choice, not a technical one. It's not a question of whether we can be sustainable, but whether we choose to…

— Anonymous

The Nuffield report suggests that there is a moral imperative for investment into GM crop research in developing countries. But the moral imperative is…

— Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher

“Permaculture land-use ethics invite us to protect intact ecosystems where they remain and, where ecosystems have been destroyed, to help restore them. Permaculture design…

— Juliana Birnbaum Fox

When we conduct agriculture, we are, therefore, altering the ecological arrangement that was responsible for our genesis as a species. I think that this…

— Wes Jackson

We recognize that our progress as a species does not have to be defined in terms of wealth or material and physical growth any…

— Wes Jackson

Instead of trying to understand agriculture in its own terms, acknowledge that agriculture ultimately comes out of nature. Right now agriculture is the No.…

— Wes Jackson

As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a sustainable culture,…

— Wes Jackson

Since nature has the most sustainable ecosystem and since ultimately agriculture comes out of nature, our standard for a sustainable world should be nature's…

— Wes Jackson

When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests, all three…

— Wes Jackson

In many ways, the idea of resilience is a more useful concept than the idea of sustainability.

— Rob Hopkins

We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we…

— Vandana Shiva

Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating…

— Yoshihiko Noda