There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort. Norman Borlaug Read Quote
These places I’ve seen have clubbed my mind – they are so poor and depressing. I don’t know what we can do to help these people, but we’ve got to do something. Norman Borlaug Read Quote
If the world population continues to increase at the same rate, we will destroy the species. Norman Borlaug Read Quote
It’s amazing how often campaigners in rich countries think poor people don’t get backache. Norman Borlaug Read Quote
Africa needs roads. Roads bring know-how and fertilizer to farmers and ideas and business for commerce. Norman Borlaug Read Quote
Pricing water delivery closer to its real costs is a necessary step to improving use efficiency. Norman Borlaug Read Quote
Clearly, we need to rethink our attitudes about water and move away from thinking of it as nearly a free good and a God-given right. Norman Borlaug Read Quote
Central African farmers don’t have any animal power because sleeping sickness kills all the animals – cattle, the horses, the burros and the mules. So draft animals don’t exist, and farming is all by hand, and the hand tools are hoes and machetes. Norman Borlaug Read Quote
I like the back country, wildlife and all of that, but it’s wrong to force poor people to live that way. Norman Borlaug Read Quote
When the Nobel Peace Prize Committee designated me the recipient of the 1970 award for my contribution to the ‘green revolution,’ they were in effect, I believe, selecting an individual to symbolize the vital role of agriculture and food production in a world that is hungry, both for bread and for peace. Norman Borlaug Read Quote
