We the people, so to speak, need to realize that if we can keep ourselves fed, we might get through this long… — Wes Jackson Co2 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,… — Wes Jackson Agriculture 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… — Wes Jackson Aesthetic 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… — Wes Jackson Assuming 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… — Wes Jackson Agriculture 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… — Wes Jackson Attention span 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… — Wes Jackson Acknowledge 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… — Wes Jackson Agriculture 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 Agriculture 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… — Wes Jackson Agriculture Copy Share Image
If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough. — Wes Jackson Accomplished Copy Share Image
If we don't get sustainability right in agriculture first, it won't happen anywhere. — Wes Jackson Agriculture Copy Share Image
If we are really serious about protecting the environment, the discharge pipes and stacks of industry would all plug directly into their… — Wes Jackson Cost Copy Share Image
The farmer and the farm, like "the environment," are looked upon, for example, as means to offset trade deficits. The farm is… — Wes Jackson Cost Copy Share Image
A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less important. There was a… — Wes Jackson Common Copy Share Image
I think the work in front of us is the first work task given our forbearers, which is to care for the… — Wes Jackson Admonition Copy Share Image
... the forces of power, particularly corporate power, are impatient with what is adequate for a coherent community. Because power gains so… — Wes Jackson Adequate Copy Share Image
“What we must think about is an agriculture with a human face. We must give standing to the new pioneers, the homecomers… — Wes Jackson Agriculture 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.… — Wes Jackson Acres Copy Share Image
The dialectical or ecological approach asserts that creating the world is involved in our every act. It is impossible for us to… — Wes Jackson Agriculture 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… — Wes Jackson Christian Copy Share Image
