America Quote by John Lawson

“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

In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds…

— Henry Brooke

Corn is the leading food and feed crop of the United States in geographic range of production, acreage, and quantity of product. The vital…

— David F. Houston

“Indians are American aren't they? They made corn.”

— Delicia Q. Rivers-Penn

“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

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

— Michael Pollan

“Since the Indians were better woodsmen than the English and virtually impossible to track down, the method was to feign peaceful intentions, let them…

— Howard Zinn

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

— Michael Pollan

Corn occupies a really special role in what I've been calling American agro-economics.

— Hope Jahren

So that's us: processed corn, walking.

— Michael Pollan

As maize became important for human food worldwide, modern agricultural research on maize breeding continued the corn breeding begun thousands of years ago in…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

It is not elegant to gnaw Indian corn. The kernels should be scored with a knife, scraped off into the plate, and then eaten…

— Charlie Day