Wes Jackson Quotes
When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests, all three are exploited. By consulting Nature as the source and measure of that membership, The Land Institute seeks to develop an agriculture that will save soil from being lost or poisoned while promoting a community life at once prosperous and enduring.
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Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.
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Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.
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I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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Sometimes I feel like a man; sometimes I feel like a child.
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I have no guitar technique.
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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.
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If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.
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If everyone were a good person, it'd obviously be a better world.
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A commodity producer should be comfortable being exposed to prices.
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The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.
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They sailed away for a year and a dayTo the land where the bong-tree grows.
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I couldn't believe this could be true in the 21st century.
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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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Accents are very tangible, blessedly, and if you have to do one, it's a way of getting into character. I can read it through a few times and pretend I know what I'm doing!
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I didn't want to keep forcing myself to grind out book after book.
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As you mature, you start reading and studying and researching, you start to really know what life is about.
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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It's funny, because I had no intention of being in a band because I was so shy. But I loved playing music and loved writing songs. I always thought I'd be in the background and, if I did get into a band, be a backup musician.
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For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff. One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn't go back.
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The more you feel like you need to fix something, the more you need to not.
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Just look at herbal remedies. It's essentially a throwback. It's saying you go to a plant and you mush it up and you stick it in the jar and you sell it and you eat it and it's going to cure what ails you. And that's the kind of stuff that people believed in the early 19th century.
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When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests, all three are exploited. By consulting Nature as the source and measure of that membership, The Land Institute seeks to develop an agriculture that will save soil from being lost or poisoned while promoting a community life at once prosperous and enduring.
