Ancient Quote by Edward Coke

For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

But let the good old corn adorn The hills our fathers trod; Still let us, for his golden corn, Send up our thanks to…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

I don't mind parting with the corn, but not with the field in which it was raised.

— John Constable

“Corn might be the epidemic that kills us, but I've always loved staring at a big field of it, perfectly planted.”

— Nickolas Butler

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

“We got a saying around here about our corn, ‘it grows knee-high by the Fourth of July.”

— Richard Puz

“There is every reason to believe that corn has succeeded in domesticating us.”

— Michael Pollan

“You see, the genetics of the corn used in those fritters are nothing like what Mother Nature originally created.”

— Jayson Lusk

“Corn is at the core of modern agribusiness, the most important food crop in North America. In no other crop are the values of…

— Carol Deppe

“How this peculiar grass, native to Central America and unknown to the Old World before 1492, came to colonize so much of our land…

— Michael Pollan

“They said this would be the last year for corn. It needed too many fertilizers, and the oil to make them—the oil to make…

— Jeri Smith-Ready

“So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this sunlight- and…

— Michael Pollan