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

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.

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.

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

I’d have been dead a long time ago if not for my friends, one of whom had just jumped off the cliff after me. I’d have been a lot more appreciative if he hadn’t pushed me first." ~Cassandra Palmer

I like Aristotle, but I don’t agree with his cosmological argument about god.

Is the music broke, Mommy?

No answer to prayer is an indication of our merit every answer to prayer is an indication of God's mercy.

The stage calls my name.

If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.

Without respect, the subtle alchemy that binds an organization or that serves as the impetus for a business transaction would dissolve into mutual suspicion and hostility.

Mathematics is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst.

As in art, poetry, music, etc., the best theology is worked out in pain