Maize Quotes

• During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago

  Norman Borlaug

  Country, Past, Years

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). "La humanidad y la civilización en otra encrucijada"

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• You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men.

  Chinua Achebe

  Greatness, Men, Yams

  Chinua Achebe (2011). “No Longer at Ease”, p.58, Anchor

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• Una canción de la buena hierba verde Una canción que no hable más de las calles de la ciudad; Una canción de granjas - una canción de la tierra de los campos. Una canción con olor a heno secado al sol, donde los ágiles cántaros manejan la horca; Una canción con sabor a trigo nuevo, y a maíz recién descascarillado.

  Walt Whitman

  Song, Cities, Smell

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett, Arthur Golden, William White (2008). “Leaves of Grass: Vol. I-III: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.590, NYU Press

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• The Green Revolution focused on the big three - maize, rice and wheat - and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have.

  Bill Gates

  Should Have, Three, Green

  "Bill Gates, time traveler". www.politico.com.

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• Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Shopping, Bored, Buying

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• El sorgo es algo inusual. Puede alcanzar temperaturas muy altas, pero en la mayoría de los entornos no es tan productivo como el maíz.

  Bill Gates

  Calor, Amabilidad, Medio Ambiente

  "LA ENTREVISTA DE BILL GATES: Se avecina un milagro energético que cambiará el mundo". Entrevista con Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. 22 de febrero de 2016.

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• O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Orange, Land

  'The Daisy' (1855) st. 1

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• So GMOs, who knows? Maybe GMOs will come, they will get maize that produces double. But who knows what else may happen to the maize?

  Wangari Maathai

  Gmos, May, Produce

  Fuente: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• The Christians seized all the maize the locals of Nicaragua had grown for themselves and their own families and, as a consequence, some twenty or thirty thousand natives died of hunger, some mothers even killing their own children and eating them.

  Bartolomé de las Casas

  Cristiana, Madre, Hijos

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• 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, maize, barley, and fallow, mine pretty much goes clothes, makeup shoes, and clothes (I don't bother with fallow). Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Makeup, Years, Shoes

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• Even where the land was more receptive, settlers soon learned to take some precautions before planting their vegetables. Maize and pumpkin seeds were soaked in water for several days and then blackened with tar before planting - the most effective way to deter rats, mice and birds.

  Bee Dawson

  Vegetables, Land, Water

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