Accomplished Quote by Wes Jackson

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

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

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

Politicians are simply reflections of the public.

— Wes Jackson

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

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

“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

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

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

The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star.

— Wes Jackson

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

If we don't get sustainability right in agriculture first, it won't happen anywhere.

— Wes Jackson