There are no miracles in agricultural production.

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

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.

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

To this day, I enjoy nature, the luxury of undisturbed wilderness, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and deserts and their wildlife. But I also know that the greatest danger to their perpetuity is the pressure of human population.

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.