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
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 more than our progress as individuals has to be defined in terms of physical growth. Physical growth of the body reaches a limit, but the character and the soul of the individual continues to grow, or… — 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 consumerism, the powers of greed and envy and pride. One of the most effective ways for this to come about would be for our universities to assume the awesome responsibility to both validate and educate those… — 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 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 television was supposed to bring is less a village than a playground... Little attempt is made to pass on our cultural inheritance, and our moral and religious traditions are neglected except in the shallow "family values"… — 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 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
