Irving Stone

I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.

American Writer

Billy Collins

Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.

American Poet

Erin Brockovich

I was born and raised in Kansas. The worst things are the locusts, mosquitos, the flatness, the humidity. The greatest things are the simplicity of life, watching the thunderheads building on the horizon, and running through cornfields.

American Activist

Jason Momoa

Being raised in Iowa, I know what a cornfield does for me, and I wanted to have that same kind of feeling for the Ramapo Mountains.

American Actor

Mike Pence

I'm a small-town kid who grew up with a cornfield in the back yard and dreaming of serving my country in public office.

American Vice President

John Lithgow

I look on myself as a sort of hybrid, having grown up in the world of Shakespeare out in the cornfields of Ohio.

Becca Fitzpatrick

My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.

American Author

Molly Bloom

I lived across from a cornfield when I was growing up.

Lucas Cruikshank

My house is surrounded on three sides by cornfields.

American Comedian

Jaime Harrison

American Politician

Used to describe rural farmland areas, usually vast and open spaces.

Agricultural Setting

Evokes specific seasons; think of summer and early autumn, when corn is tall and ready for harvest.

Seasonal Imagery

Can symbolize traditional American rural life, especially in the Midwest.

Cultural Symbol

 feeding areas in the cornfields they're usually they're gone before we put a seed in the ground so we really co-exist pretty well and for the cranes it's a breakfast buffet all day all day all you can eat buffet the cranes have adapted to where is the grain is very important to their diet

Thousands of Cranes Take...

 But, when we came out and we came out with Ian's body the Mazatec village... and I'll never forget this and I'm still forever grateful. They had carved out steps in the cornfields and the whole village came in and accompanied us out. And we went right into the local, small cathedral.

Underwater Cave Diving:...

 drops it's a river valley so the hill that drops from where the cornfields start into the river valley that's that was my ski hill and basically like if I did well in school I got to go skiing and I kind of always knew that I had this you know I had this

Photographer Jimmy Chin:...

 thought he heard thunder coming from his cornfield. However, the sound wasn’t coming from the sky. The source was a large, smoking crack emitting gas and ejecting rocks. This fissure would come to be known as the volcano Paricutin,

Volcanic eruption...

 lot of them you know had their orchards they had cornfields along the river and then to top it all off they had homes along the river you know a lot of families that that grew up in that area it was very devastating to have to have

Rediscovering Glen...

 Do you guys want to see how it works? Yes. All right. Nobody believes me, so ... better to show. This is our distribution center, which is about 20 kilometers outside of Kigali. This actually used to be a cornfield nine months ago,

How we're using drones...

 You will never, under any scenario, walk through a virgin forest and see the same plant growing in orderly rows at the same time, nothing else living there. When you do a cornfield, you're selecting what lives and what dies.

We can reprogram life....

 the monarch to me is sort of like the canary in the cornfield I think this monarch is kind of a warning signal the most common butterfly probably in the world over a period of twenty years it's associated with this rapidly

How to Create Your Own...

 was the most important town for the merchants in the area the nawa men dressed in white cotton trousers and shirts and the women wore these blouses embroidered with mythological figures when they worked in the cornfields

The Aztecs: From Empire...

 while the remaining 60% supports consumer good industries worldwide. Yet the spread of this wonder-crop has come at a price. Global water sources are polluted by excess ammonium nitrate from cornfields.

Cornfield