Charles Massy > Quotes

“Regenerative agriculture therefore implies more than just sustaining something but rather an active rebuilding or regeneration of existing systems towards full health. It also implies an open-ended process of ongoing improvement and positive transformation. This can encompass the rebuilding or regeneration of soil itself, and of biodiversity more widely; the reduction of toxins and pollutants; the recharging of aquifers; the production of healthier food, clean water and air; the replacement of external inputs; and the enhancement of social capital and ecological knowledge.”
― Charles Massy, Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture, A New Earth

“Since our break with nature came with agriculture, it seems fitting that the healing of culture begin with agriculture, fitting that agriculture take the lead.”
― Charles Massy, Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture – A New Earth

“In the words of the contemporary philosopher John Ralston Saul, the West in particular (but now spreading globally) ‘has become addicted to a particular set of illusions in order to avoid coming to terms with its own reality’.9 This reality is that our unsustainable behaviour has precipitated us into the Anthropocene.”
― Charles Massy, Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture – A New Earth