Remedy Quotes by Norman Borlaug

Without food, man at most can live but a few weeks; without it all other components of social justice are meaningless.

— Norman Borlaug

For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to…

— Norman Borlaug

Nevertheless, the number of farmers, small as well as large, who are adopting the new seeds and new technology is increasing very rapidly, and…

— Norman Borlaug

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.

— Norman Borlaug

Almost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all who are…

— Norman Borlaug

The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total…

— Norman Borlaug

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of…

— Norman Borlaug

There are 6.6 billion people on the planet today. With organic farming we could only feed four billion of them. Which two billion would…

— Norman Borlaug

This is a basic problem, to feed 6.6 billion people. Without fertilizer, forget it. The game is over.

— Norman Borlaug

During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing…

— Norman Borlaug

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.

— Norman Borlaug

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

— Norman Borlaug