Acorns Quote by Henry Brooke

The Indian Corn, or Maiz, proves the most useful Grain in the World; and had it not been for the Fruitfulness of this Species,…

— John Lawson

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

It is here we come to the heart of the matter. The economic principle of comparative advantage', 'a country may, in return for manufactured…

— David Ricardo

Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a wrecked seed.

— Hannah Whitall Smith

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

— Michael Pollan

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

— John Constable

“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

Every acorn on the ground is just as alive as the three-hundred-year-old oak tree that towers over it.

— Hope Jahren

Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.

— David F. Houston

I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were…

— Henry Ford

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Author Cynthia Bourgeault presents an instructive parable in her book The Wisdom Way of Knowing that captures the essence of what this ancient knowledge…

— Beatrice Chestnut