Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

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

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.

There are no miracles in agricultural production.

Everything else can wait, agriculture can’t.