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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• When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.

  

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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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• I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.

  

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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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• My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

  

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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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• Mr. Balanchine was a great gentleman, and he loved his dancers. He was devoted to his company. He came to the ballet every night, and his presence was felt. It was like the whole company was dancing for him. And if he liked you, he trusted you to be yourself. He didn't try to change you and make you into something you were not.

  

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• Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

  

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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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• For those of us who try to keep remembering, Try to do our better than our best. Think of all the children in the drifts of snow. Winners never quit, but winters never rest.

  

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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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• My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.

  

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• Through him I am aware of the nature and condition of your world, and offer from my viewpoint comments meant to help you. Through Ruburt, then, I am permitted to view the earth again in your terms. I exist apart from him, as he exists apart from me, yet we together a part of the same entity - and that simply carries the idea of the psyche further.

  

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• When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.

  

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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.

  

  Wes Jackson
  • World
  • Standards
  • Agriculture