We the people, so to speak, need to realize that if we can keep ourselves fed, we might get through this long dark tunnel of power down, and mitigate the consequences of CO2. — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
The Christian message, like an ecosystem, is about process. In an ecological sense, the cross symbolizes a willingness to die so that the continuation of life might be served. Now we must extend our love to the unborn if we… — 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
