The farmer and the farm, like "the environment," are looked upon, for example, as means to offset trade deficits. The farm is a place where we can externalize costs. The cost of pesticides to the farmer and the cost of… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
It is doubtful that the dissection of living animals and plants could be done by those who believe them to be holy. A pantheist would not view trees as so many board feet in the manner a Christian would. A… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough. — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
