Wes Jackson Quotes

If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough.

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 own ecosystem.

Instead of trying to understand agriculture in its own terms, acknowledge that agriculture ultimately comes out of nature. Right now agriculture is the No. 1 threat to biodiversity on the planet.

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

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

Politicians are simply reflections of the public.

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 the consequences of CO2.