Wes Jackson Quotes
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.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.
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I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you won enough basketball games, there was no such thing as poor, backward, country, female, or inferior.
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I live for my daughter. Every decision I make is about her and for her. It's great. She's perfect.
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We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
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My parents are from the Midwest. They're from Evanston, Illinois. They moved out to Los Angeles right before I was born.
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SMALL SONG The reeds give way to the windand give the wind away
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I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.
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I remember watching 'EastEnders' as a kid with my mum, and even my dad would be gripped by the odd episode. So to think I would be part of the show was a strange feeling at first.
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There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.
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I don't have life rage anymore.
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And, actually it was interesting because I had done a lot of traveling in the United States and Canada and Mexico on my motorcycle; and I was really, it was the first time I had really gotten out of the Minnesota area to speak of.
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Even though I am an actor, by nature I am what you could call a homely girl.
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I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
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I've been to Gettysburg probably more than half a dozen times.
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A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.
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The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.
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I was one of those dorky kids who'd wanted to go to Harvard since the fifth grade.
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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.
