... the forces of power, particularly corporate power, are impatient with what is adequate for a coherent community. Because power gains so little from community in the short run, it does not hesitate to destroy community for the long run. — 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
