It is doubtful that the dissection of living animals and plants could be done by those who believe them to be holy. A pantheist would not view trees …

- 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, community …

- Wes Jackson

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 land when …

- Wes Jackson

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

- 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 more than our progress…

- Wes Jackson

If we are really serious about protecting the environment, the discharge pipes and stacks of industry would all plug directly into their intake side,…

- Wes Jackson

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 daily …

- 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 of power down, and mitigate…

- Wes Jackson

I think the work in front of us is the first work task given our forbearers, which is to care for the garden. Now because it's the first thing comman…

- Wes Jackson