"There are no miracles in agricultural production."

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Source : Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

Norman Borlaug

#Agriculture Quotes #Miracle Quotes

“Why do people think that weâ€™re degraded when weâ€™re examining positions of degradation, or examining the cycle of our own degradation?”
“When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.”
“If you look into the way that materials are used in an ecological system you'll notice that you'll find that there is no waste. The waste of one organism becomes food for another and everything's recycled in an ecological system whereas in our human built environment there's a throughput system. We use something then we throw it away... We have to imitate nature and try to re-use everything we make as human beings or recycle them - when we cannot re-use or recycle them we should try to reintegrate them back into the natural environment.”

Source : "Q&A: Ken Yeang interview". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 20, 2007.
“We each have the kind of children we deserve.”
“I think the tendency with parents is to make your kid not unlike the next kid but to overprotect and say, "My way's better than whatever you've got in mind." But by the time that tie's over that shoulder and they're drinking that obligatory brewski with the boys, it's like, Man, who are you people?”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“Maybe nothingness is to be without your presence, without you moving, slicing the noon like a blue flower, without you walking later through the fog and the cobbles, without the light you carry in your hand, golden, which maybe others will not see, which maybe no one knew was growing like the red beginnings of a rose. In short, without your presence: without your coming suddenly, incitingly, to know my life, gust of a rosebush, wheat of wind: since then I am because you are, since then you are, I am, we are, and through love I will be, you will be, we will be.”
“Brains aren't everything, but they're important.”
“Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being. Individualism holds that a civilized society, or any form of association, cooperation or peaceful co-existence among men, can be achieved only on the basis of the recognition of individual rights - and that a group, as such, has no rights other than the individual rights of its members.”

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