Lib Quotes
  • Authors
  • Topics
  • Lists
  • Pictures
  • Resources
  • More about Wes Jackson

Wes Jackson Quotes

4 Sourced Quotes

    • Source
    • Report...
The forces of power, particularly corporate power, are impatient with what is adequate for a coherent community. Because power gains so little from community in the short run, it does not hesitate to destroy community for the long run.

Wes Jackson
    • Source
    • Report...
Farmers are totally dependent on oil companies, machinery companies, fertilizer and pesticide companies. Farmers are, in one sense, helpless subjects of the corporate kingdoms of agriculture.

Wes Jackson
    • Source
    • Report...
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 it was common for stories to be told and retold, a most valuable exercise, for the story retold is the story reexamined over and over again at different levels of intellectual and emotional growth.

Wes Jackson
    • Source
    • Report...
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 becomes the locus and metaphor for both agriculture and culture.

Wes Jackson

Quote of the day

With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe

Wes Jackson

Wes Jackson
Creative Commons

Born: January 1, 1936 (age 89)
Bio: Wes Jackson is the founder and current president of The Land Institute. He is also a member of the World Future Council.
Known for:
  1. Becoming native to this place (1992)
  2. New roots for agriculture (1980)
  3. Altars of unhewn stone (1987)

WikipediaWes Jackson on Wikipedia

Suggest an edit or a new quoteSuggest an edit or a new quote

American Botanist Quotes
Botanist Quotes
20th-century Botanist Quotes

Related Authors

Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry
American Author

Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo DiCaprio
American Actor

Featured Authors

MontesquieuElvis PresleyDenis DiderotRalph Waldo EmersonJ. R. R. TolkienRaymond ChandlerQueen VictoriaCharles DickensGalileo GalileiFlorence NightingalePyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyRichard Nixon

Lists

Predictions that didn't happen

Predictions that didn't happen

If it's on the Internet it must be true

If it's on the Internet it must be true

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Picture Quotes

If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

Confucius

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Philip James Bailey

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Popular Topics

  • life
  • love
  • nature
  • time
  • god
  • power
  • human
  • mind
  • work
  • art
  • heart
  • thought
  • men
  • day
Lib Quotes

100% Sourced Quotes.

Our motto is: Don't quote it if you can't source it.

Contact us

Social Media

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • X (Twitter)
  • Pinterest

Recent

Predictions that didn't happen

If it's on the Internet it must be true

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Subscribe to our Newsletter:
Quote of the Day
JS and WordPress
Subscribe
to RSS Feeds
© 2017-2025 LibQuotes
Terms of Use / Privacy Policy / About Us

Lib Quotes