I think the work in front of us is the first work task given our forbearers, which is to care for the garden. Now because it's the first thing commanded, maybe it's the first thing forgotten. But it is the… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
We the people, so to speak, need to realize that if we can keep ourselves fed, we might get through this long dark tunnel… — Wes Jackson Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Our task is to build cultural fortresses to protect our emerging nativeness. They must be strong enough to hold at bay the powers of… — Wes Jackson Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“We have become a more juvenile culture. We have become a childish "me, me, me" culture with fifteen-second attention spans. The global village that… — Wes Jackson Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star. — Wes Jackson Copy Share
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 Copy Share
If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough. — Wes Jackson Copy Share
If we don't get sustainability right in agriculture first, it won't happen anywhere. — Wes Jackson Copy Share
If we are really serious about protecting the environment, the discharge pipes and stacks of industry would all plug directly into their intake side,… — Wes Jackson Copy Share
The farmer and the farm, like "the environment," are looked upon, for example, as means to offset trade deficits. The farm is a place… — Wes Jackson Copy Share
