Norman Borlaug
Related JULES VERNE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES In all likelihood fairies of larger stature were ancient gods in a state of decay, while their dimin... LEWIS SPENCE PUBLILIUS SYRUS (It) should help Pioneer identify and develop a number of next-generation traits to help plants surv... LINDA CASTLE Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. HIPPOCRATES OF IPHICRATES HIPPOCRATES Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many... ROBERT T. BAKKER C.G. JUNG Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective reme... PIEN CH'IAO Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective re... PIEN CH'IAO TERRY PRATCHETT UNKNOWN We're asking for voluntarily conservation of water and to not plant any new landscaping until the dr... STEVE MASSEY Some diseases that afflict humans today, such as malaria, gout and cancer, are truly ancient and wer... CHRISTOPHER BEARD VIRGINIA WOOLF But the gods are dead--
Ay, Zeus is dead, and all the gods but Doubt,
And doubt is brother dev... JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY, LL.D. BENJAMIN RUSH BENJAMIN RUSH JOSEPH CONRAD LAO TZU LAO TZU ABHIJIT NASKAR ARTHUR GUITERMAN The gods want you to laugh and above all they want you to laugh at them. MARTY RUBIN TOM HIDDLESTON VIRGINIA WOOLF ANN DRUYAN MARIE LU SOPHOCLES Only a fool gives lectures on drowning during a drought. VIKRANT PARSAI Ginsberg turned out to be depressingly prescient when, after a heated argument with Norman Podhoretz... ROGER KIMBALL ANITA BROOKNER ANITA BROOKNER ANITA BROOKNER During drought, the priority is the family and the sick, followed by cows and goats. Men usually com... JACQUI GOLDIN In some cases the same optimized gene can be used in multiple crops, and in other cases, part of the... LINDA CASTLE DAVID HUME I was lucky enough to be a child during the renaissance of Australian children's literature, whe... CATHERINE JINKS ANITA BROOKNER You walk between gods and men. Your choices are only between despair and hope! GREG KEYES JANE AUSTEN We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesme... ABRAHAM H. MASLOW URSULA K. LEGUIN An Indigo Bunting let out a trill, a cheery song, reminding me of better days, of hope and happiness... CHERYL R COWTAN M. J. ROSE The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the p... OTTO SCHILY Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG SUSANNA KAYSEN It was no wonder they thought us to be immortal––our nightly celebrations put Olympus to shame. KATLYN CHARLESWORTH ANNA GODBERSEN When wheat is ripening properly, when the wind is blowing across the field, you can hear the beards ... NORMAN BORLAUG Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been... NORMAN BORLAUG Unless progress with agricultural yields remains very strong, the next century will experience sheer... NORMAN BORLAUG There are no miracles in agricultural production. NORMAN BORLAUG The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the... NORMAN BORLAUG Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all ... NORMAN BORLAUG Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate fo... NORMAN BORLAUG Abnormal stresses and strains tend to accentuate man's animal instincts and provoke irrational a... NORMAN BORLAUG Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of th... NORMAN BORLAUG One of the greatest threats to mankind today is that the world may be choked by an explosively perva... NORMAN BORLAUG Water covers about 70 percent of the Earth's surface. Of this total, only about 2.5 percent is f... NORMAN BORLAUG The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind... NORMAN BORLAUG In future irrigation schemes, water drainage and removal systems should be budgeted from the start o... NORMAN BORLAUG Africa needs roads. Roads bring know-how and fertilizer to farmers and ideas and business for commer... NORMAN BORLAUG It's a free society. But don't tell the world that we can feed the present population withou... NORMAN BORLAUG The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, compri... NORMAN BORLAUG Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious reg... NORMAN BORLAUG If some consumers believe that it's better from the point of view of their health to have organi... NORMAN BORLAUG Most people still fail to comprehend the magnitude and menace of the 'Population Monster.' NORMAN BORLAUG We must recognize the fact that adequate food is only the first requisite for life. For a decent and... NORMAN BORLAUG The lack of roads in Africa greatly hinders agriculture, education, and development. NORMAN BORLAUG Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire p... NORMAN BORLAUG Unless there is one master gene for yield, which I'm guessing there is not, engineering for yiel... NORMAN BORLAUG We will be guilty of criminal negligence, without extenuation, if we permit future famines. NORMAN BORLAUG Central African farmers don't have any animal power because sleeping sickness kills all the anim... NORMAN BORLAUG It's amazing how often campaigners in rich countries think poor people don't get backache. NORMAN BORLAUG Clearly, we need to rethink our attitudes about water and move away from thinking of it as nearly a ... NORMAN BORLAUG Pricing water delivery closer to its real costs is a necessary step to improving use efficiency. NORMAN BORLAUG The breakup of the former Soviet Union has caused its grain output to plummet, but if the new republ... NORMAN BORLAUG When the Nobel Peace Prize Committee designated me the recipient of the 1970 award for my contributi... NORMAN BORLAUG Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the cou... NORMAN BORLAUG Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more tha... NORMAN BORLAUG In my Nobel lecture, I suggested we had until the year 2000 to tame the population monster, and then... NORMAN BORLAUG Supplying food to sub-Saharan African countries is made very complex because of a lack of infrastruc... NORMAN BORLAUG SAMUEL DANIEL SAMUEL DANIEL SAMUEL DANIEL [The funds are for] foreseeable needs in ongoing crises but there are also margins for unexpected ca... AMADEU ALTAFAJ WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE MARIE LU It's important to note that the apparent HIV antiviral compounds identified in the Bonn study occur ... LARRY KLEINGARTNER As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service... MIKE ROGERS RICK RIORDAN PAUL RAND We have tears in our eyes ROALD DAHL TANITH LEE It's that one scoring drought we always seem to have. It's not one or two possessions. It's five or ... JOSH DOYLE And we were swamped--the health issues, the malnutrition, the diseases were remarkable. RICHARD SEIVERT
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When wheat is ripening properly, when the wind is blowing across the field, you can hear the beards ... NORMAN BORLAUG Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been... NORMAN BORLAUG Unless progress with agricultural yields remains very strong, the next century will experience sheer... NORMAN BORLAUG There are no miracles in agricultural production. NORMAN BORLAUG The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the... NORMAN BORLAUG Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all ... NORMAN BORLAUG Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate fo... NORMAN BORLAUG Abnormal stresses and strains tend to accentuate man's animal instincts and provoke irrational a... NORMAN BORLAUG Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of th... NORMAN BORLAUG One of the greatest threats to mankind today is that the world may be choked by an explosively perva... NORMAN BORLAUG Water covers about 70 percent of the Earth's surface. Of this total, only about 2.5 percent is f... NORMAN BORLAUG The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind... NORMAN BORLAUG In future irrigation schemes, water drainage and removal systems should be budgeted from the start o... NORMAN BORLAUG Africa needs roads. Roads bring know-how and fertilizer to farmers and ideas and business for commer... NORMAN BORLAUG It's a free society. But don't tell the world that we can feed the present population withou... NORMAN BORLAUG The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, compri... NORMAN BORLAUG Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious reg... NORMAN BORLAUG If some consumers believe that it's better from the point of view of their health to have organi... NORMAN BORLAUG Most people still fail to comprehend the magnitude and menace of the 'Population Monster.' NORMAN BORLAUG We must recognize the fact that adequate food is only the first requisite for life. For a decent and... NORMAN BORLAUG The lack of roads in Africa greatly hinders agriculture, education, and development. NORMAN BORLAUG Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire p... NORMAN BORLAUG Unless there is one master gene for yield, which I'm guessing there is not, engineering for yiel... NORMAN BORLAUG We will be guilty of criminal negligence, without extenuation, if we permit future famines. NORMAN BORLAUG Central African farmers don't have any animal power because sleeping sickness kills all the anim... 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Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disor... 
Some remedies are worse than the diseases. 
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. 
The gods have become our diseases. 
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. 
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods, they have never forgotten this. 
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and... 
Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a froz... 
Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... 
I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any. 
I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any 
There are no greater or truer lords, gods, fathers, sons or holy spirits, than the humans. Humans ar... 
Another's name my trail may bear,
The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian... 
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people ... 
For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took ever... 
What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were nev... 
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest. 
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being goo... 
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and. . . you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by be... 
The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, ... 
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being... 
but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. 
Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, c... 
There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that... 
Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first ... 
Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, desp... 
Recurrent memories of Henry Schoonmaker were the most exciting thing to happen in her conscious mind... 
Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, ... 
Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most b... 
Where is your ancient courage? You were used to say extremities was the trier of spirits; That commo... 
Which reminded me...I still owed the gods a debt.
A style is the consequence of recurrent habits, restraints, or rules invented or inherited, written ... 
People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural b... 
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of i... 
A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds toge... 
A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing ... 
I always get more applause than votes. 
To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is... 
In Britain, the idea one could go from blue-collar beginnings to the university was so far out, it w... 
At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know w... 
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. 
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? 
To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two. 
The fun of fishing is catching 'em, not killing 'em. 
Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their ... 
If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if i... 
Obviously it's my second senior event, and I'm tired obviously coming back from the British ... 
I could never bear to be buried with people to whom I had not been introduced. 
Bulgaria was the only Axis country to deflect insistent German demands for the deportation of its Je... 
The E.U. is an organization that was created after the Second World War for calming down the nationa... 
I voted for Nader, and I have no doubts at all that it was the right thing to do because the Nader c... 
Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must mak... 
Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own m... 
Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must mak... 
He got a corporation mind. He doesn't believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man. 
Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apar... 
There is a real danger of the United Kingdom breaking up. There is a loss of common identity. 
He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work. 
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's... 
The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smal... 
I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. ... 
Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child. 
It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, ... 
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it ap... 
we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. 
Aggressive play is a vital asset of the world's greatest golfers. However, it's even more important ... 
Many a man never fails because he never tries. 
Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead thems... 
If sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured t... 
Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless... 