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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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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As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything.
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Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek.
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I began writing 'The Cold Song' in the months following my father's death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of being right in the middle of life and wondering: 'What now? How to proceed?'
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Tera has been living in her body since birth, so she is accustomed to cars crashing into each other when she walks down the street and getting everything for free.
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It's really important to stand up for yourself and not always agree with what people say if indeed you don't feel that that's true.
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People of good character are not all going to come down on the same side of difficult political and social issues. Good people - people of character and moral literacy - can be conservative, and good people can be liberal. We must not permit our disputes over thorny political questions to obscure the obligation we have to offer instruction to all our young people in the area in which we have, as a society, reached a consensus: namely, on the importance of good character, and some of its pervasive particulars.
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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.
