Call of the Reed Warbler 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