Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists.

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.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

When there is no owner, there will be an abuser.

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.

We want to end this misery of the Palestinian people in order for us really to live with dignity as human beings in an independent state side by side with the Israeli state.

Mum had a job fitting upholstery into cars, but, in the evenings, she worked as a seamstress.

Why's it so sunny?" she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. "I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy," he said.

It stems from my Australianisms and belief that everyone is a fundamental cog in the wheel.

Regrets are illuminations come too late.

The reality is that a brand can no longer afford to be "friends with everyone."

I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.