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" Clearly, we need to rethink our attitudes about water and move away from thinking of it as nearly a free good and a God-given right. "

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

" Unless progress with agricultural yields remains very strong, the next century will experience sheer human misery that, on a numerical scale, will exceed the worst of everything that has come before. "

" If the world population continues to increase at the same rate, we will destroy the species. "

" There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort. "

" Water covers about 70 percent of the Earth's surface. Of this total, only about 2.5 percent is fresh water, and most of this is frozen in the ice caps of Antarctica and Greenland, in soil moisture, or in deep aquifers not readily accessible for human use. "

" It's a free society. But don't tell the world that we can feed the present population without chemical fertilizer. That's when this misinformation becomes destructive. "

" Most people still fail to comprehend the magnitude and menace of the 'Population Monster.' "

" In my Nobel lecture, I suggested we had until the year 2000 to tame the population monster, and then food shortages would take us under. Now I believe we have a little longer. "

" If people want to believe that the organic food has better nutritive value, it's up to them to make that foolish decision. But there's absolutely no research that shows that organic foods provide better nutrition. "

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

" I like the back country, wildlife and all of that, but it's wrong to force poor people to live that way. "

" Central African farmers don't have any animal power because sleeping sickness kills all the animals - cattle, the horses, the burros and the mules. So draft animals don't exist, and farming is all by hand, and the hand tools are hoes and machetes. "

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

" During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago. "

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

" Supplying food to sub-Saharan African countries is made very complex because of a lack of infrastructure. "

" When the Nobel Peace Prize Committee designated me the recipient of the 1970 award for my contribution to the 'green revolution,' they were in effect, I believe, selecting an individual to symbolize the vital role of agriculture and food production in a world that is hungry, both for bread and for peace. "

" Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past. "

" There are no miracles in agricultural production. "

" Roads are essential to any type of agricultural development. "

" Unless there is one master gene for yield, which I'm guessing there is not, engineering for yield will be very complex. It may happen eventually, but through the coming decades, we must assume that gene engineering will not be the answer to the world's food problems. "

" The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace. "

" Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace. "

" In future irrigation schemes, water drainage and removal systems should be budgeted from the start of the project. Unfortunately, adding such costs to the original project often will result in a poor return on investment. Society then will have to decide how much it is willing to subsidize new irrigation development. "

" For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its production in other countries. "

" As far as plants are concerned, they can't tell whether that nitrate ion comes from artificial chemicals or from decomposed organic matter. "

" Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply. "

" Pricing water delivery closer to its real costs is a necessary step to improving use efficiency. "

" One of the greatest threats to mankind today is that the world may be choked by an explosively pervading but well camouflaged bureaucracy. "

" Africa needs roads. Roads bring know-how and fertilizer to farmers and ideas and business for commerce. "