DailyGood

For the last 27 years, DailyGood newsletters have offered a daily email that inspires you to respond to life with creativity and kindness. To join a community of 151,818 subscribers, subscribe here.

Mar 27, 2004

"Where are those leaders who have the necessary scientific competence, the vision, the common sense, the social consciousness, the qualities of leadership and the persistent determination to convert the potential benefactions into real benefactions for mankind in general and for the hungry in particular?" --Norman Borlaug

Unknown Nobel Laureate

Of the three living American Nobel Peace Prize laureates, one is almost unknown and yet he is responsible for saving millions of lives. Norman E. Borlaug won the Nobel in 1970 for the "green revolution" -- using high yield crops to grow more grain, for more people on only marginally more land. Not only did he save entire countries from famines, he also saved millions of square miles of wildlife from being plowed.