"Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we’re made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only way to recruit these carbon atoms for the molecules necessary to support lif..."
- Michael Pollan
"We got a saying around here about our corn, ‘it grows knee-high by the Fourth of July."
- Richard Puz
"This corn will teach to you, should you peel away the husk, and be willing to open your ears."
- Anthony Liccione
"The Indians, keeping to themselves, laughed at your superior methods and lived from the land more abundantly and with less labor than you did... And when your own people started deserting in order to ..."
- Edmund S. Morgan
"Blood is thicker than water, but they still use corn starch as a thickener on cooking shows"
- Josh Stern
"At that period, rising in the world meant giving up working with your hands in favor of work in a store or an office. The people who lived in town had made it, and turned their backs socially on those..."
- William Maxwell