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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

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.

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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

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

Wes Jackson

Wes Jackson

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Born: January 1, 1936 (age 85)

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:

Becoming native to this place (1992)
New roots for agriculture (1980)
Altars of unhewn stone (1987)

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