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Norman Borlaug Quotes

American - Scientist | March 25, 1914 -

One of the greatest threats to mankind today is that the world may be choked by an explosively pervading but well camouflaged bureaucracy.

Today World Bureaucracy Mankind May

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.

People Mind Help Know Places Poor

If the world population continues to increase at the same rate, we will destroy the species.

World Will Same Destroy Population

It's amazing how often campaigners in rich countries think poor people don't get backache.

People Amazing Rich Think Poor Get

Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists.

Environmental Earth Salt Some Many

Roads are essential to any type of agricultural development.

Roads Development Essential Type Any

Pricing water delivery closer to its real costs is a necessary step to improving use efficiency.

Water Step Efficiency Real Improving

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.

Good Water Free Thinking Need Right

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.

Power Animal Sickness Tools Hand

Supplying food to sub-Saharan African countries is made very complex because of a lack of infrastructure.

Food Complex Infrastructure Because

I like the back country, wildlife and all of that, but it's wrong to force poor people to live that way.

Live People Back Country Wrong Way

Abnormal stresses and strains tend to accentuate man's animal instincts and provoke irrational and socially disruptive behavior among the less stable individuals in the maddening crowd.

Man Animal Behavior Crowd Irrational

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