"Our task is to build cultural fortresses to……" — 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 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 who want to be homecomers -- not necessarily to go home but to go someplace and dig in and begin the long search and experiment to become native."
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9 Quotes by Wes Jackson
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When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as…
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... the forces of power, particularly corporate power, are impatient with what is adequate for a coherent community. Because power…
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As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy…
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A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less important. There…
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The dialectical or ecological approach asserts that creating the world is involved in our every act. It is impossible for…
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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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The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our…
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The farmer and the farm, like "the environment," are looked upon, for example, as means to offset trade deficits. The…
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