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

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.

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

Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries

Again Gabe looked back at Michael, hoping he was about to step in, but all he did was give him a nod. A nod? Really? I don't need a nod. I need someone to stop this! Gabe thought.

The more time I spent at the Finches', the more I realized what a waste of my life this school crap was. It was nothing but a holding tank for kids without bigger plans or ideas.

Day and night - ruthlessly apply key lessons of mankind such as leaving greed, fear and lust to improve the efficiency & effectiveness of life.

That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.

To know and not do, is to not yet know.

I see dead people. But, then by God, I do something about it!

My husband was getting his sea legs-rereading Joseph Conrad with a side order of C S Forester.

There is nothing in your destiny, nothing in your future that you cannot accomplish.

Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.

Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England.