Environment Quote by Bill Gates

Many people sow rice in their fields and expect to harvest maize.

— Vikrant Parsai

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.

— Michael Pollan

In Punjab wheat production it is a 'gamble of temperature' unlike other parts of the country where there is a 'gamble of rainfall'.

— M. S. Swaminathan

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a…

— Michael Pollan

So GMOs, who knows? Maybe GMOs will come, they will get maize that produces double. But who knows what else may happen to the…

— Wangari Maathai

What you farmers need to do is raise less corn and more Hell.

— Mary Elizabeth Lease

Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land,…

— Michael Pollan

The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if…

— David F. Houston

Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure…

— Michael Pollan

Foolishness is when you sow corn and expect to harvest rice.

— Vincenti Vincenzo

So that's us: processed corn, walking.

— Michael Pollan

The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to…

— Thomas Traherne