We must be sure that our research effort is adequate to guarantee sufficient water for all our future needs.

The world toward which we are all working is one in which the earth will yield up enough for every man in every country, a world of peace in which the very deserts bloom and the polar ice is turned to the enrichment of man's life.

We must conserve our resources.

In your child's lifetime, if not in yours, and I think in yours, but in your child's lifetime we are going to be using the water from the sea to make the deserts bloom.

Three things--and three things only-sustain life on this planet.

Actions deferred are all too often opportunities lost, particularly in safeguarding our natural resources.

We cannot possibly afford not to make a maximum effort to get fresh water from salt water, if this State and the country is going to move ahead.

Water is the key to the American future.

We must have things to eat and things to wear and they must come from but one place and that is the land.

It has taken us a long time to discover that agriculture is the fundamental basis on which we all live.

Remember that nature is your great restorer.