Wes Jackson Quotes

#1. Out of context," as Wes Jackson has said, "the best minds do the worst damage.

Wendell Berry

#2. (Wes Jackson calls our species "homo the homogenizer.")

Michael Pollan

#3. It helps me when I help people.

Vinny Guadagnino

#4. Every generation, including mine, has to find their own heroes.

Sylvester Stallone

#5. I want you," he murmured into her ear, before placing another kiss in the hollow behind her ear. "God help me, I don't care if it's against the rules. I want you so fucking much."
She turned her head, looking him straight in the eye, and smiled like a vixen. "I want you, too.

Sophie Jackson

#6. We create our own enemies

Iron Man 3

#7. Be nice to old people.

Jaime Murray

#8. 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.

Wes Jackson

#9. Man - a being in search of meaning.

Plato

#10. 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.

Wes Jackson

#11. I truly believe that the individual who learns to practice thanksgiving activates within himself and around himself continuous victories and blessings from God.

Norman Vincent Peale

#12. 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.

Wes Jackson

#13. The Christian message, like an ecosystem, is about process. In an ecological sense, the cross symbolizes a willingness to die so that the continuation of life might be served. Now we must extend our love to the unborn if we are to serve eternal life.

Wes Jackson

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

Wes Jackson

#15. Things rarely happen for a single reason. Even the cleverest and most skilled manipulators recognize that their real art lies in making use of that which they cannot predict.

Tom Clancy

#16. When you're grieving, the times you're happy are so much more tragic than the times that you aren't. Because being happy feels fake and it feels temporary and it feels meaningless. And hating being happy is a shitty way to live.

Hannah Moskowitz

#17. Politicians are simply reflections of the public.

Wes Jackson

#18. 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

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

Wes Jackson

#20. Bad things happen in life, but we must learn to deal with them and move on

Sid Mittra

#21. Procrastination is "maybe"; certainty is, "I'm ready!

Matshona Dhliwayo

#22. If we are really serious about protecting the environment, the discharge pipes and stacks of industry would all plug directly into their intake side, and costs would not be externalized to a voiceless environment.

Wes Jackson

#23. The wilderness is cracked and browned But through the water pale and thin Still shine the unoffending feet And there above the painter set 15 The Father and the Paraclete. .

T. S. Eliot

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

Wes Jackson

#25. 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 commanded, maybe it's the first thing forgotten. But it is the first admonition and it is absolutely unequivocal. It is part of right livelihood.

Wes Jackson

#26. It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral;

Saul D. Alinsky

#27. John Wilkes Booth, who said, Sorry, I thought he was a critic. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#28. 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

#29. FK THAT. I AM TUCKER MAX. I AM BETTER THAN ALL OF YOU.

Tucker Max