Wes Jackson Quotes
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When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests, all three are…
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... the forces of power, particularly corporate power, are impatient with what is adequate for a coherent community. Because power gains so little from community…
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As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a sustainable culture, community…
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A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less important. There was a time throughout our…
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The dialectical or ecological approach asserts that creating the world is involved in our every act. It is impossible for us to operate in our…
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If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough.
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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,…
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The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star.
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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…
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