There are no miracles in agricultural production.

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 volunteer to die?

The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.

You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.

Everything else can wait, agriculture can’t.

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

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

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

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

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.

In short, immaturity is spoiled. And what is spoiled doesn’t ripen. It goes bad early, gets bitter and withers on the vine.

Good people who are always silent for bad people to gain freedom and do their worsts are the most dangerous wastes the world ever has.

A question is a door and an unopened door is just part of the wall and as long as it's standing it's doing its job.

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

I have American in-laws, and I care about the environment. We don't use disposable diapers, which, of course, creates an environmental problem of our own.

I pride myself on being a jerk, because I'm brutally honest all the time.

You never feel lonely if you're writing, because you're living with all these characters in your head.

I don't want my tombstone to say actress. I want it to say human being.

I would like better colouration of my legs, like a little less of that English mottled purple thing that makes it necessary to wear tights all the time.

About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.