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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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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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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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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As a student, I hadn't really been interested in architecture at all, but when I started teaching, it grew into me - rather than me growing into it.
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I still love Delhi but get scared of the madness sometime. I know that my fans love me. But it gets a bit tough to handle when, in their excitement, they start touching and poking you to see if you're for real.
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I know who I am.
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I went in for an operation to remove a brain tumor.
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It's about us going out there trying to impose our game on them and them trying to do the same to us and whoever does best will come out best.
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When you heard Jimi Hendrix, you knew it was Jimi Hendrix. He introduced himself with his instrument. His attack to a guitar man, was, oh, something else! You think of one of the great American ball players, or one of the great fighters of the world, you know, that's the way he would attack any note on his guitar.
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The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.
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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.
