QUOTES
"The
agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and
run on the contemporary sunlight of our star."
If
we don't get sustainability in agriculture first, sustainability will not happen."
"By beginning
to make agriculture sustainable we will have taken the first step forward for
humanity to begin to measure progress by its independence from the extractive
economy."
“Ecosystem
agriculturalists will take advantage of huge chunks of what works. They will be
taking advantage of the natural integrities of ecosystems worked out over the
millennia.”
We
need to be saying, 'Listen folks, capitalism is inherently destructive.' How do
we get from where we are to where we need to be... We have got to get rid of capitalism.
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."
"...the
'natural systems' approach could be transferable worldwide, as long as adequate
research is devoted to developing species and mixtures of species appropriate
to specific environments. We believe that an agriculture is well within reach
that is resilient, economical, ecologically responsible and socially just."
