Wes Jackson description from
Ausubel, Ken, and J. P. Harpignies. 2004. Nature's operating instructions: the true biotechnologies. Bioneers series. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.

Wes Jackson is among the most brilliant and original researchers in agriculture, a man of penetrating vision who has deeply contemplated humanity's ancient and problematic relationship to agriculture. His goal is to reverse the radical damage caused by farming, which is arguably humanity's single most environmentally destructive activity.

Wes. . . holds degrees in biology, botany, and genetics and formerly chaired one of the nation's first environmental studies programs at California State University at Sacramento. He is the founder and president of the renowned Land Institute in Salina, Kansas. . .Life magazine named him as one of the one hundred "most important Americans of the twentieth century."

Wes has long propounded a true natural systems agriculture that mimics how nature grows food and topsoil.