Behinds Quote by Henry David Thoreau

I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.

— Henry David Thoreau

I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

— Barbara McClintock

If you could eat portions of pine trees, you could eliminate corn in many ways.

— Homaro Cantu

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

— Nickolas Butler

“Swamps where cedars grow and turtles wait on logs but not for anything in particular; fields bordered by crooked fences broken by years of…

— E.B. White

Wanna hear a joke about corn?! nevermind it's corny.

— Jordan Trienta Dos Thomas

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

— Richard Puz

When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all…

— Debi Mazar

As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look.

— Chinua Achebe

“I told you it was a backwoods. They probably still practice corn sacrifice.”

— Laurie R. King

I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible.

— Lee Trevino

The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact.

— Henry David Thoreau