Norman Borlaug Quotes

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Norman Borlaug

Profession : Scientist

Birth : March 25, 1914

In future irrigation schemes, water drainage and removal systems should be budgeted from the start of the project. Unfortunately, adding such costs to the original project often will result in a poor return on investment. Society then will have to decide how much it is willing to subsidize new irrigation development.

Norman Borlaug

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

Norman Borlaug

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

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

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

Norman Borlaug

The lack of roads in Africa greatly hinders agriculture, education, and development.

Norman Borlaug

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

Norman Borlaug

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

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.

Norman Borlaug