Cities Quote by Walt Whitman

“A gust of wind set the leaves of grass to dancing and celebrated the grass's song before it died.”

— Haruki Murakami

“D'you know, Georgie," he said, settling back comfortably in the deep grass, that there song you've been a-singin' at all day - it ain't…

— Robert Lawson

In Ghana, Nigeria, Togo, Angola and Cameroon maize is a staple, yet the earliest mention of maize in west Africa comes from a Portuguese…

— Kwasi Kwarteng

“A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, acquainting them with the principal historical facts on…

— Benjamin Franklin

The Green Revolution focused on the big three - maize, rice and wheat - and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three…

— Bill Gates

Maize is used both as fodder and grain in the state. A large number of fodder-baled silage units have come up in Punjab, which…

— Amarinder Singh

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

The Christians seized all the maize the locals of Nicaragua had grown for themselves and their own families and, as a consequence, some twenty…

— Bartolome de las Casas

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

— Vikrant Parsai

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

Sorghum is kind of unusual. It can go to very high heats, but it's not as productive in most environments as maize is.

— Bill Gates

During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing…

— Norman Borlaug

Even where the land was more receptive, settlers soon learned to take some precautions before planting their vegetables. Maize and pumpkin seeds were soaked…

— Bee Dawson

You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the forest? You…

— Chinua Achebe

For years now I've kind of operated under an informal shopping cycle. A bit like a farmer's crop rotation system. Except, instead of wheat,…

— Sophie Kinsella