| 单词 | crop |
| 例句 | The crops are good but we could use some rain. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z My other example of how ancient peoples apparently used their ethnobiological knowledge to good effect comes from the Jordan Valley in the ninth millennium B.C., the period of the earliest crop cultivation there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Besides, the longer he waited, the more danger there was that an early freeze would destroy the crop. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Petey watched the horse cropping the grass by one of the hives. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “Now there is water enough to bring a crop to fruit,” he said suddenly. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z His skin was much paler than the other two men’s, almost sallow, and a crop of tiny sweat beads gleamed on his forehead just below the edge of his black turban. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Take pictures; I want to see your crops!” she said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The wild ancestors of our wheat and barley crops look so similar to the crops themselves that the identity of the ancestor has never been in doubt. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Some South American crops nevertheless did succeed in reaching Mesoamerica, such as manioc, sweet potatoes, and peanuts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And little Willy was sure that if the crop died, Grandfather would die too. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Be oft you shameless hussy,” she cried, bringing her hunting crop down on the creature’s nose. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z His manner, his clothes were reminders that they had no crops of their own and no land to speak of either. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Our favorite program, “The Day Breaker’s Club,” played the traditional music of rural Puerto Rico and gave information about crops, husbandry, and the weather. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Thereafter, Chinese-derived crops, Neolithic technology, village living, and pottery similar to that of South China spread into tropical Southeast Asia, probably accompanied by South China’s language families. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z With so few major crops in the world, all of them domesticated thousands of years ago, it’s less surprising that many areas of the world had no wild native plants at all of outstanding potential. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When Frightful had eaten until her crop was round and full, Jon showed her a perch. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Her hair was a cap of white, cropped short as a man’s, and her face was a perfect example of how someone can be beautiful without being beautiful. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It was as likely to kill a crop as nurture it, and it sent grown men running for the nearest shelter. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Because I'm not the girl who wears crop tops and short skirts and looks like one of Taylor Swift’s best friends. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The old man himself walking around his grounds, beating the side of his shiny boots with a riding crop. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Course, it wasn’t only crops they got. I left my good jacket hanging on the fence post. Danged if those hoppers didn’t munch their way through that, too.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Get up in the morning, eat breakfast, tend my crops, fix broken stuff, eat lunch, answer e-mail, watch TV, eat dinner, go to bed. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Propose a theory to explain one of these eternal mysteries: Mona Lisa’s smile, crop circles, or Velveeta. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z And instead of the eighth graders, who’ve moved on to high school, we have a crop of sixth graders who seem as uncertain as I must have been last year. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z It’s a small, windowless room attached to the stables, fragrant with leather polish and stained wood from floor to ceiling, the walls lined with heavy saddles, riding crops, bridles, and reins. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Sure, it works for the Amity. But what happens when not everyone wants to strum banjos and grow crops? What happens when someone does something terrible and talking about it can’t solve the problem?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Her master had been a terror, Sybil told Cora, a tobacco man who competed with the neighboring planters every year over the biggest crop. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Hence it seems likely that some of them were also the founding crops of highland agriculture, especially as the ancient drainage systems preserved are so similar to the modern drainage systems used for growing taro. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Kabuo’s features were smooth and angular; his hair had been cropped close to his skull in a manner that made its musculature prominent. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Chinese sites with the earliest evidence of crops also contained bones of domestic pigs, dogs, and chickens. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z His silvery-gray hair was cropped close to his skull, and icy-blue eyes watched each student enter and take a seat. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Even if I have a good crop, that wouldn’t leave me enough to pay all my bills.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Those legacies of multiple independent domestications may provide further testimony to the slow diffusion of crops along the Americas’ north-south axis. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Once we got to his fields, Grampa parked the truck and turned me loose while he talked with the workers and looked over the crops. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z It was, after all, his crop as well as mine that needed cultivating. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Like the changes in seed dispersal, these changes in germination inhibition characterize wheat, barley, peas, and many other crops compared with their wild ancestors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I hope you are home well before my crop is harvested come August. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z What was it about barley and emmer wheat that caused them to be the first crops? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The effect of the loss of honeybees ripples to other crops. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z In most other places it was instead imported, in the form of crops and livestock that had been domesticated elsewhere. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When they arrived at Hagrid’s cabin, however, they found an elderly witch with closely cropped gray hair and a very prominent chin standing before his front door. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z We definitely looked different: I was thin and wore my hair cropped very short, practically shaved, per the style for kids back home. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Thus, if one is not permitted to grow such a crop on private premises by law, such pharmaceutical farming initiatives are forbidden. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z For instance, none of the eight main founder crops except barley grows wild in Egypt. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Landowners knew that if they sowed the same crop in the same field year after year, the harvest would be poor. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Milo had never dreamed that the Nile Valley could be so fertile or that there would be no market at all for the crop he had bought. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z If it turned out that such crops did not become adopted for cultural or other reasons, we would be left with a nagging doubt. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Even today, with Eurasian crops and with trucks and railroads to transport produce, food production in Australia remains a risky business. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He was dressed in Juvenile Hall’s gray sweatshirt and khaki pants, his hair cropped close. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z In the future it may become necessary to analyze soils for insecticides before planting certain food crops. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Just watching the sheep cropping on the hillsides. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Yet it seems that the more crops we plant, the less food rations we receive. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The ash gives the soil a quick shot of nutrients, giving the crop a chance. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “This unassuming style promotes study, that’s why we adopt it,” returned Laurie, who certainly could not be accused of vanity, having voluntarily sacrificed a handsome curly crop to the demand for quarter-inch-long stubble. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look it up. Six-three-four-point-three-three-four. Lemons as an orchard crop. That means it’s a fruit!” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z With the help of the Hitler Youth and BDM, farmers planted more crops and reaped bountiful harvests. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “She’s a rare British lass in a crop of bloodthirsty Americans.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Chemical fertilizer was needed to grow hybrid corn because it is a very hungry crop. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z His black hair was cropped close, and he had the most elegant Persian nose of anyone I had ever met. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Similarly, the changes required to transform wild plants into crops can in principle be brought about by alternative new mutations or alternative courses of selection to yield equivalent results. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I was my four-year-old self, playing near the fields as my brother and the other boys slung stones at the birds and other animals that might try to eat the people’s precious crops. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Similarly, the people who first domesticated wet-country crops of West Africa spoke languages ancestral to the modern Niger-Congo languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A plantation was not a new technology but, rather, a new way of organizing planting, growing, cutting, and refining a crop. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The unicorn shook its mane, then began to crop the grass of the meadow contentedly. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z No fences, no fields of crops, and no signs of any kind of settlement or people except for the dusty road itself. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z And not even the rosiest glasses could make my crop situation look good. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Corn was their most important crop, but beans, pumpkins, tomatoes, cocoa, and other food crops flourished and supported the dense population. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “The grass needs rain. The crops need rain.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The Sahel, Ethiopia, and West Africa did yield indigenous crops, but many fewer varieties than grew in Eurasia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A farm of corn and soybeans doesn’t require nearly as much human labor as the old-fashioned farm full of different kinds of crops. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z We can deduce many of the answers by examining the well-established sequence in which various crops developed in Southwest Asia’s Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Other people, too, had good crops, except for Snail, who spent his time cutting back weeds and examining the ground to see when the corn would grow. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Still I will try—again, I should get at least a seed crop. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “In spite of the curly crop, I don’t see the ‘son Jo’ whom I left a year ago,” said Mr. March. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just be careful when you go out there. Lots of fields, lots of crops. Could be karpoi on the loose.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Ahead of them lay the berry-hedges—raspberry, blackberry, bilberry—and the strawberry patch where every August sleepy baby creatures could be seen, their stomachs full after eating the pick of the crop. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z From sunrise to sunset, we plant crops and vegetables in the garden, stopping for only dinner and lunch. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time the plowing was done the crop was springing up, men bristling with arms who came rushing to attack him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z When we invented agriculture, we had to take care to plant and harvest our crops in the right season. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Henrietta and Day were lucky if they sold enough tobacco each season to feed the family and plant the next crop. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Infected elm wood, after being cut and stored for firewood, will release a crop of fungus-carrying beetles unless burned before spring. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Ma, we are starving to death. Many people are dying in the village. Yet the government trades our crops to buy guns to kill more people.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Those principles of crop development by artificial selection still serve as our most understandable model of the origin of species by natural selection. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Even of these several hundred crops, most provide minor supplements to our diet and would not by themselves have sufficed to support the rise of civilizations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z All these things need to be produced: crops have to be grown and distributed, soap must get boiled, cloth has to be woven. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The captain of waiters told him, and Milo bought the whole crop. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z So far, we have been discussing transformations of wild plants into crops as a result of selection by farmers, consciously or unconsciously. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Because of this ease of domestication, big-seeded annuals were the first, or among the first, crops developed not only in the Fertile Crescent but also in China and the Sahel. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z My hair had gotten large from the snow, but for once my face was free of any major acne crops, and there were no chunks of food between my teeth. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z A full- fledged agricultural revolution with a multifarious suite of crops, the complex is an example of a major cultural innovation that has completely disappeared. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The world’s sixth most important crop in terms of annual harvest, this large tuber has been fundamental to Amazonian diets for 7,000 years or more. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The Spencers took turns going to school, the rest staying home to help their parents with chores and crops and the babies. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Not a single African crop originated south of it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I skirted around a field of some grassy waist-high crop I didn’t even try to identify in the dim light. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The fact that every meal we eat carries its load of chlorinated hydrocarbons is the inevitable consequence of the almost universal spraying or dusting of agricultural crops with these poisons. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Politics on occasion crept into the dialogue, much like an exotic plant growing amid descriptions of vetch as the ideal rotation crop. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “They say the crop is not too plentiful this year,” Mercy put in slyly. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Fitzgibbon was surely aware that some of his crops were being removed. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Since these two plants were among the first eight crops of the Fertile Crescent, they were presumably among the most readily domesticated of all wild plants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Underneath the pavement, which had been laid down years before, was a crop of manioc. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z These domestic animals and crops were gradually joined by China’s many other domesticates. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One old man from the country said that the mute had come from somewhere near his home and that the mute’s father had the finest tobacco crop in all the county. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He bought a rig and drove around, meeting the earlier comers, talking of soil and water, climate and crops, prices and facilities. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Polynesian food production depended mainly on agriculture, which was impossible at subantarctic latitudes because all Polynesian crops were tropical ones initially domesticated outside Polynesia and brought in by colonists. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Thus bananas and coffee, two African crops, become the principal agricultural exports of Central America; maize and manioc, domesticated in Mesoamerica and Amazonia respectively, return the favor by becoming staples in tropical Africa. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I based my crop yield estimates on the potato industry back on Earth. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Goats and catde cropped the grass, while small boys guarded them with switches. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The ones that do adopt new crops, livestock, or technology may thereby be enabled to nourish themselves better and to outbreed, displace, conquer, or kill off societies resisting innovation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For instance, around 3000 B.C. the hunter-gatherers of southern Sweden adopted farming based on Southwest Asian crops, but abandoned it around 2700 B.C. and reverted to hunting-gathering for 400 years before resuming farming. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Along with the crops, they were useful commodities in the marketplaces of each city in the trade networks initially established by the Toltecs. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z I smoked fish and rabbit, dug wild onions by the pouchful, and raced September for her crop. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Lourdes remembers her own exodus, the watercolor landscape she wrapped in brown paper, her wedding veil and riding crops and the sack of birdseed. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The market will collapse or the crops will fail. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The wheat crop was full of weeds, and it was discovered that on one of his nocturnal visits Snowball had mixed weed seeds with the seed corn. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Palm trees cropped up in the newsreels, and tropical islands. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z On the way to the barn, Jody noticed how the young grass was up and how the stubble was melting day by day into the new green crop of volunteer. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The animals and crops seem to move in circles like some sort of complicated dance. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z There were huge wooden beds, a jungle of leaves, and ripe crops right under the dining room window. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Spanish landfalls in the Americas were at subtropical latitudes highly suitable for food production, based at first mostly on Native American crops but also on Eurasian domestic animals, especially cattle and horses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “The crop will be better next year. There’ll be more day work. The hunting was better last year.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z These inspectors also collected one-third of the crops, to be dried and placed in the storehouses for difficult times. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “Yeah. Seems like it hurt everything. Some years, one crop is down and another is up. This year everything is down.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It is true that Native communities all across the North American continent grew those three crops and told stories about them. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Bongo calls every fresh crop of babies “newbies.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Familiar later Chinese crops include soybeans, hemp, citrus fruit, tea, apricots, peaches, and pears. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As Ulbrickson stood watching the new crop of freshmen that afternoon, Royal Brougham, the sports editor at the Post-Intelligencer, edged close to him. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The last batch of African crops is also adapted to wet climates but provides the biggest surprise of Figure 19.3. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “She was enslaved by carnival folk,” Addison said, “forced to pull fat, spoiled children like some common beast of burden— whipped, even, with riding crops!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Since those are the oldest West African crops, all modern southern Nigerian languages inherited the same original set of words for them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes she would pass by Pitipiti’s fields and jeer at her, asking her why she grew crops if she had no mouths to feed. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z The ancestors of most of the founder crops have wild relatives, in the Fertile Crescent and elsewhere, that would also have been suitable for domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Big domestic mammals also interacted with domestic plants in two ways to increase crop production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the center of one knot of elegant guests a cowboy with a little riding crop flicked the crop at one of his fans, producing a response of exaggerated screaming and pleased giggling. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When the owner turns her back, Claudine leans in, kisses the servant girl on the mouth, and runs her fingers through her cropped brown hair. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Cereal crops alone now account for more than half of the calories consumed by the world’s human populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z After school hours there were the gardens to weed, and the first crop of flax to harvest in the hilly slopes above the town. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “Can we keep that? You know I always use the corn crop to fund my meals for the elderly.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Even before the crops are planted, the fields are watered to get any weed seeds to grow. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Now that I had my pups another obstacle had cropped up. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Early the next morning Mr. Sullivan showed us where his crop was, and after breakfast, Papa, Roberto, and I headed for the vineyard to pick. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The same pattern perhaps applies to Ethiopia, where wheat, barley, and other Southwest Asian crops have been cultivated for a long time. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We were past our crops when Jay went still next to me. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Next day, early, while Pap£ is out seeing what damage this last storm has done on the cacao crop, two guardias arrive in a Jeep. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet all crops arose from wild plant species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As we passed the crops, we came to the rootworking shop. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The crop birthed communities, requiring nails and braces for houses, the tools to build the houses, roads to connect them, and more iron to keep it all running. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Certainly its presence was enough to account for the damage to crops irrigated with this water. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They already know about the hundreds of existing crops and set out to develop yet another one. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This is how it worked: In times when prices were low, the government gave farmers loans so they could store, rather than have to sell, their crops. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Still unaccustomed to thinking like a pig, we had agreed that raccoons had been at work on some farmer’s crop. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The smell wasn’t quite as nice as the crops, but still, he imagined it could’ve been a lot worse. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Then the teeth of a dragon must be cast into the furrows, like seed-corn—which would spring up at once into a crop of armed men. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They didn’t look that much alike, but of course they were two young white women, short, with cropped hair and freckles. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The first farmers didn’t even have any existing crop as a model to inspire them to develop new ones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Only when European settlers arrived by sea in 1652, bringing with them their Fertile Crescent crop package, could agriculture thrive in South Africa’s Mediterranean zone. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Mr Wormwood's fine crop of black hair was now a dirty silver, the colour this time of a tightrope-walker's tights that had not been washed for the entire circus season. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z He’s tall, with cropped black hair, a thin mustache, and dark brown skin. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z They include such familiar crops as wheat, barley, peas, beans, and grapes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And then the crop of crickets appeared and Frightful hopped all over the meadow snagging them in her great talons and eating them. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z And so the story of the Colorado farms and their damaged crops assumes a significance that transcends its local importance. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Corn has managed to become the most widely planted crop in America—more than 80 million acres of farmland are planted with corn every year. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The earliest farming communities there in the seventh millennium B.C. utilized wheat, barley, and other crops that had been previously domesticated in the Fertile Crescent and that evidently spread to the Indus Valley through Iran. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “You dispersed the Laughing Locusts before they devoured the county crops!” he said. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z In 1932 and 1933 it took away the food crop harvest and next season's seed in the Soviet states that produced most of the nation's grain—Ukraine, the Caucasus, and Kazakhstan. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z As the crops grow, the jungle rapidly returns—weeds first, then fast-growing tropical trees. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Sown wheat yields a crop within a few months; a planted almond grows into a nut-bearing tree in three or four years; but a planted acorn may not become productive for a decade or more. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Evidently, most of the Fertile Crescent’s founder crops were never domesticated again elsewhere after their initial domestication in the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The hairpin crown was an optical illusion: it’s just hair, graying and cropped short. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes the menace is to the crop itself — a menace that remains as long as the insecticide contamination is in the soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In Britain, “corn” can mean the principal cereal crop in a region—oats in Scotland, for example, are sometimes referred to by the term. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Now the crops begin, stretched out as far as the eye can see. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Their host’s father had been a member of the cotton vanguard and a savvy proselytizer of the miracle crop. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He fed her until her crop was full. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Directly behind each pen was a rectangular patch of closely cropped grass. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Weeds and thorns and nettles grew in that wasteland, but nothing that could be called a crop. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z An’ when we put in a crop, why, we’d be there to take the crop up. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z With their valley and crops flooded, the farmers instantly became “the water refugees,” forced to give up their land with little or no compensation from the government. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z That was Sea Island cotton the slaver had ordered for his rows, but scattered among the seeds were those of violence and death, and that crop grew fast. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z After a few good years in Washington, the problem cropped up again. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Young otters collected watercress and fished; Cornflower headed a party of mice to reap the early cereal crops; more youngsters tended the salad gardens. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He was tall, with broad shoulders, and hair cropped so close to his head it made his giant ears stick out even more. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z I guess they could sell flour to folks that didn’t have a good crop. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z No one will break any crop records this year. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z When sugar is in the headlines, critics speak about how much of it we eat, not who picked the crop. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The year before, farmers in the Midwest had had a bumper corn crop. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z A kraal was a homestead and usually included a simple fenced-in enclosure for animals, fields for growing crops, and one or more thatched huts. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He borrowed heavily to buy himself three sheep, and the bottom dropped out of the wool market the very year he had had enough wool to think of it as a cash crop. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z She was wearing three shades of denim and an old fedora over cropped hair. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He is as tall as Pa, with an angular body and cropped gray hair that sits straight on his head like dense jungle bushes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A second method for identifying a crop’s or animal’s site of domestication is to plot on a map the dates of the domesticated form’s first appearance at each locality. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Foliage turned yellow, plants failed to mature, and many crops were killed outright. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They grew a modest crop of vegetables to sell in town. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z As Tommy Lacks stood by his crop praying for a good price, Henrietta and the cousins ran around the tobacco piles, talking in a fast gibberish to sound like the auctioneer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z First, do hunter-gatherers and incipient farmers really know well all locally available wild species and their uses, or might they have overlooked potential ancestors of valuable crops? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He wrote proudly of how the government agent had brought other farmers to see how well his crops were doing. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Tuttle hadn’t offered me a picking job since that time us boys pulled up an acre of his onion crop to dam the stream between his pasture and ours. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “My fellow reports they simply want peace and the chance to get in a good crop of wheat.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Densities were also low on temperate New Zealand, which was too cool for some Polynesian crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Matilda's father had a fine crop of black hair which he parted in the middle and of which he was exceedingly proud. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z When I opened my eyes, the sky was full red and Jill was standing up, cropping her grass. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z We’d heard rumors of rain in the river valleys west of us, and those tales aroused the deepest thirst you can imagine—the thirst of dying crops and animals. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When she was in the saddle, she could ride so fast that there was no chance of gemstones cropping up in her wake. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “He’s going to need the money from the sugar crop more than ever. The sap’s there, the wood’s cut, and just look at the help!” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z “No, our crops are all gathered,” I said. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because we gobble up all the nasty little insects that are gobbling up all the farmer’s crops. It helps enormously, and we ourselves don’t charge a penny for our services.” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z First there was the local apple crop, threatening to rot because the harvesters had all gone into the army or war factories. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “Wheat is a winter crop—” he was explaining when the PA announced something. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z And then, rather than centering their agriculture on annual crops, they focused on the Amazon’s wildly diverse assortment of trees. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He was cropping grass in the back pasture not far from Grandpa’s mule. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z In contrast, the most important cereal crops of eastern Asia and of the New World—rice and corn, respectively—had a lower protein content that posed significant nutritional problems. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He asks for a short crop, military style. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In Tall Andras s field the mommet flapped its loose fabric arms and the crows, made timid by it, called out harshly and went to other fields, other crops. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Those wild cereal harvests were precursors to the domestication of the earliest crops, the cereals wheat and barley, in the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The heat and drought of dog days had parched the earth, and the crops had been laid by. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And it just so happened that in the fall of 1996 a new opportunity had cropped up almost out of nowhere. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Splotches of red cropped up across her cheeks. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The first day, a Government inspector came out to examine the Garners’ crop, so Luke stayed in his room the entire day. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Normally, it's not an ideal way to grow crops, because it spreads disease: Human waste has pathogens in it that, you guessed it, infect humans. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “The crop we are going to raise is a profitable one,” and Jo laughed. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z He struck up at once a harvest thanksgiving hymn, all about crops being “safely gathered in.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z All sorts of crops grew here: corn, but also fruits and other vegetables, as well as oats, hay, and alfalfa to feed the pigs, cattle, chickens, and horses. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z A gray tinge lingers just under the whiteness of her skin, and tiny patches of whiskers crop up along her cheeks. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z An eerie, hair-raising creaking of riding boots, a crop striking leather, a peremptory footstep that makes me shake myself awake and turn on lights all over the house. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She thought that it would be pleasant to visit them and see their new home, their small lake and their crops growing. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Annual crops fly on a wing and a prayer. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the Fertile Crescent founder crops reached Egypt very quickly and then spread as far south as the cool highlands of Ethiopia, beyond which they didn’t spread. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In general, societies that engaged in intense exchanges of crops, livestock, and technologies related to food production were more likely to become involved in other exchanges as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Worse, almost no rain fell between mid-May and mid-July, withering their crops. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The crops would appear, the asparagus was ready to sprout, and for the rest of the spring and summer the garden would be too busy a place for mice to live in comfortably. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Holding a cigarette at his hip like a riding crop, he walked with clipped steps into the store. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The result was again the start of farming dependent on crops from elsewhere, a failure to domesticate local species, and a massive modern replacement of human population. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Why did peoples outside the Fertile Crescent fail to domesticate them, and begin to grow them only when they had already been domesticated in the eastern Mediterranean and arrived thence as crops? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Then I talk back and start contradicting everyone until the old familiar Anne refrain inevitably crops up again: “No one understands me!” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Human latrines, like those of aardvarks, may have been a testing ground of the first unconscious crop breeders. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The resulting western European farming societies domesticated the poppy, which subsequently spread eastward as a crop. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The crop was so severely damaged that farmers sought to bring suit against the state for negligence in not warning them that this might happen. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z These animals ate all their crops and from time to time they even carried off children who wandered away from their parents. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z “Koly, I have nearly enough now to rebuild the house and buy what I need for crops. Soon I’ll be back in my village.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z ‘It was the 1417 crop, that is last year’s; no, the year before, of course, now: a good year.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Agricultural societies are ravaged by famine when drought, fire or earthquake devastates the annual rice or potato crop. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Settlers who stuck to the Old World crops often perished. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z As striking as these effects of barriers on crop and livestock diffusion are the effects on other features of human societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As always, no matter how plentiful the crops, there is never enough food for the new people. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you not see the crops are dead? There has been no rain and the river is dry.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z This continued for the next five years, Enoch and his family planting their landowner’s crops before tending to their own. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z "My mother always said rain was good for growing crops," Grenn put in hopefully. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “How much are artichokes selling for this year ?” “It looks like a very good year for artichokes. The crops were very bad.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “We work morning, noon, and night planting these crops and now that they are ripe we’re told we can’t eat them. We are all starving.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, inevitably, some tiny problem would crop up and throw sand in the gears, and instead of dealing with it he’d let it completely overwhelm him. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Opposite us, I can't help but also study the larger-than-life mural portrait of Tariq that cropped up on the wall behind where he died. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z You wouldn’t catch him offering to chop wood or gather in a corn crop. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z In the 154 miles from Chicago to Fort Wayne, Indiana, there are only three large towns, and the 240 miles across Ohio are primarily pasture, hay, and row crops of corn. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z She was so anxious, the ground rumbled beneath her and immediately yielded a bumper crop—precious metals popping to the surface as though the dirt was anxious to expel them. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “But may I inquire how you intend to support the establishment? If all the pupils are little ragamuffins, I’m afraid your crop won’t be profitable in a worldly sense, Mrs. Bhaer.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Mixed economies that added certain crops or livestock to hunting-gathering also competed against both types of “pure” economies, and against mixed economies with higher or lower proportions of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She made for the back door, but spun around and quickly grabbed the notebook and a pencil from under her pillow, glancing briefly at a faded story about the cotton crop on the wall. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z It was easy to grow food when there was a whole river to water the crops! A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus, growing these crops was possible only for people already fully committed to the settled village life. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Some leaf crops were so burned and spotted as to be unmarketable. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Yes! And if you ever did get any crops, the roads would be washed out so you’d never get your stuff into town anyway.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The farm flourished, and the widow Richardson gained a reputation as a hard bargainer, but one whose crop was always good, and who never sold shoddy for better merchandise. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z You probably raise goats or sheep, and the kind of culture that grows up around being a herdsman is very different from the culture that grows up around growing crops. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z She kept her hair cropped short and dyed jet black and smelled sharp and clean like cut grass. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Those eight founders were the cereals emmer wheat, einkorn wheat, and barley; the pulses lentil, pea, chickpea, and bitter vetch; and the fiber crop flax. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We looked out at the rest of the potato field and Papa said, “Even the potato crop is low this year.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They rolled in the dew, they cropped mouthfuls of the sweet summer grass, they kicked up clods of the black earth and snuffed its rich scent. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z She was short and thick-waisted, with cropped silver hair and bright pink lipstick. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Few men were left in the war-torn Soviet villages—they were all at war, leaving the women to drive tractors, manage livestock, and raise crops. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z A farmer might plant a dozen or more different varieties at one time, adjusting the mix from season to season in order to manage the risk of a crop failure. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z When he saw Tortoise surveying his fields of ripening crops, he thought of the pleasure that must come from growing such fine food. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z He keeps his hair cropped short in the back. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z They planted their crops and cared for their animals according to the cycles of the moon. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As in Africa, in the Americas the spread of native crops and domestic animals was slowed by constricted skies and environmental barriers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When I looked up, I saw a crop duster plunging his little plane over a field of growing things, behind him a cloud of pesticides parachuting out. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Between 10,000 and 9000 B.C. the people living there may already have been residing year-round in villages, but they were still hunter-gatherers; crop cultivation began only in the succeeding millennium. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The farmers didn’t believe in Wood fairies, but they listened for the tread of field dwellers and hobgoblins, who could bless a crop or eat it all. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost immediately DDT was hailed as a means of stamping out insect- borne disease and winning the farmers’ war against crop destroyers overnight. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z During this service period, city boys and girls were sent to the country to help farmers plant crops and bring in the harvest. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z They were thus in a position for several thousand years to exploit as potential crops the most useful available wild plants, whatever those should be. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Others chimed in with more suggestions: a new roof for the village hall, food for families whose crops had failed, a fresh planting of blue willows to attract more hummingbears. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z When she asked him in halting English about the acidity of soil and how it affected the corn crop, Charlie said, “Knows her dirt.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z In fact, farmers today treat several of these crops as weeds—they routinely blast little barley with herbicides. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “We lost two sons. Raja died by an accident. The child was too tender for this world; he could not live as we did. After the crops failed he—”I stopped again. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t feel the temperature of the air outside, but I knew it must be pleasant and sweet with late-year crops. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Chili peppers, squashes, amaranths, and chenopods are other crops of which different but related species were domesticated in Mesoamerica and South America, since no species was able to spread fast enough to preempt the others. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was the start of the growing season, and my father tended the crops through until harvest. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z The oats were ripe, and if they were not cut and in the shock before rain came, the crop would be lost. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z But in western Eurasia only one of several potentially useful wild species was domesticated—probably because that one spread so quickly that people soon stopped gathering the other wild relatives and ate only the crop. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And nowhere else have people living at such heights—in places where most crops won’t grow, earthquakes and landslides are frequent, and extremes of weather are the norm—repeatedly created technically advanced, long-lasting civilizations. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The first assignment today is to give an introductory talk to a new crop of tour guides. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Among them are the owners of the papaya orchard I visited, who have happily grown crops on their terra preta for two decades. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Many Africans died of malnutrition, overwork, or injuries inflicted by punishments—and were merely replaced by a fresh crop from the slave boats. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He had a knowledge of crops and seasons, born of experience; but where crops thrived under Nathan’s hand, under Selvam’s they wilted. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Once, he thought, crops grew here and animals grazed. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Then each aunt, pulling my pink blanket back patting the crop of thick curls tugging at my new toes touching my cheeks. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Irrigating her fields, nourishing her crops with other people’s passions. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Pa said that as soon as he had the crops in, they would all go to town. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The horses cropped dead brown grass and weeds. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In the Cape of South Africa the arriving Europeans found not only Khoi hunter-gatherers but also Khoi herders who already possessed only domestic animals, not crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere around 800 a.d. their hungry successors took another look at the crop and liked what they saw. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There was certainly enough dirt on the floor to permit a very limited cotton crop; but he saw no cotton. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Those crops were unable to spread south of the Sudan, beyond which they encountered summer rains and little or no seasonal variation in daylight. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Sapa Inca’s men collected food from the villages every season and placed it in the many storehouses for travelers and for the people to eat in the years when the crops didn’t grow. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Some agricultural crops and many wild plants are partly or wholly dependent on the services of the native pollinating insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A much more representative viewpoint is that of a three-year-old girl dying from malnutrition in first-century China because her father’s crops have failed. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The evidence for predominantly single domestications in Southwest Asia, but frequent multiple domestications in the Americas, might thus provide more subtle evidence that crops spread more easily out of Southwest Asia than in the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Consider the farmer who sprays his fields with insecticide to kill the bugs that are damaging his crops. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z In the fashion of the very Orthodox, their hair was closely cropped, except for the area near their ears from which mushroomed the untouched hair that tumbled down into the long side curls. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Or farmers leading mules hauling peanut crops on a wagon. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The valley’s first domesticated cereals were barley and emmer wheat, which are still among the world’s most productive crops today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The peasants still had to work on the same land, but instead of growing their own crops, they got paid in wages—they weren't allowed to sell or eat their own produce. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Matthew and Mark stayed out of school to help Dad bring the crops in, the three of them working some days from dawn until midnight. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Of the first eight significant crops to have been domesticated in the Fertile Crescent, all were selfers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It all worked very well, except when the baboons stole the crops of other people. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z The first crop planted from hybrid corn seed will all be identical. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The purpose of this examination is to try to figure out whether the crop was developed in just one area or else independently in several areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There were good rains that year, and in Tortoise’s fields the crops grew tall and strong. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z They’re sufficiently similar to familiar crops that you can easily recognize the wild berries, even though they’re much smaller than those we grow. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Outside of a few lakes, there was only hardscrabble ground and the soil wasn’t so deep for growing crops. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z All of Southwest Asia’s founder crops preempted domestication of any of their close relatives throughout the whole expanse of western Eurasia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I saw mosses and fruit trees and crop fields filled with peanuts, chili peppers, and koka leaves. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z They decide to crop one, of him and Ashima standing together years ago in front of the sea. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Then the crops don’t grow well and the animals get thin. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z There were bully cotton crops in Palestine and people for twenty miles around were going to pick it. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z However, Ethiopia also developed many indigenous crops, and we do not yet know whether it was these crops or the arriving Fertile Crescent crops that launched Ethiopian food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The initial development of food production in China was therefore independent of that at the same latitude in the Fertile Crescent, and gave rise to entirely different crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Someone came out of the door behind the desk: a short, thin man with closely cropped hair. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It turns out that the eastern U.S. founder crops were four plants domesticated in the period 2500-1500 B.C., a full 6,000 years after wheat and barley domestication in the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I could bundle up, but the cold would kill my crops. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Folks around me, they prayed for rain and good crops and good health. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z It is the reason why our children go hungry and our grandmothers wither and our crops are so often doomed to fail. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z How he has shot very influential men in cold blood and dropped fire bombs from the air that can burn up a whole field of crops in ten seconds flat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z This proliferation of corn and other crops such as beans, squash, and potatoes required vast networks of cultural and commercial exchange among the peoples of North, Central, and South America. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z By the end of each opera they are cropping up at an astonishing rate, sometimes several in every bar. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Apart from the treatises on farming and the cultivation of various crops, there were rows and rows of histories. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Indians adopted Mexican crops, and many of them discarded many of their local domesticates, piecemeal; squash was domesticated independently, corn arrived from Mexico around A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It is night, sometime after Ucho returned from Machu Picchu and the crops grew from the plentiful rains. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “Well, sir, I have been working hard. Our crop wasn’t great, but we did all right. We are thankful for that.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m in an orange maxi dress that reaches my ankles, with a cropped white cardigan. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z The land was tilled and the first crop planted in time for the pale light of spring. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “And did you burn those crops, my lord?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z His dark beard was cropped close, and Moss often felt brief bursts of desire when he spent too long staring at the man’s face. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The farmers ended up losing as much, or more, of their crop to rodents as they had lost to the rabbits. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Let it wash a man’s crop out of the ground year after year, and them up there in Washington spending fifty thousand dollars a day keeping an army in Nicarauga or some place. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z We rebuilt the chicken coops and stables and began to plan an irrigation system so the crops wouldn’t have to depend on the weather. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z First are cases in which the word for a particular crop is very similar in all those southern Nigerian languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Those crops turn out to be ones believed to be of Indonesian origin, such as bananas and Asian yams. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They like vegetables, especially eggplants, and they like to raid farmers’ crops. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Much depends on the type of soil, the crop, and the nature and concentration of the insecticide. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The wooden bleachers that circled the floor were full of family, friends, and supporters of the crop of graduates, who had yet to enter the room. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z In the competition for king of the crops, corn left the European plants in the dust. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z If you wanted to grow crops again, you would have to find some place to put all the ash. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Cotton grew in the field that bounded the railroad tracks and the air was laden with the opulent smells of greening crops and leafy forests. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z To keep the fall crop of daikon from freezing during the cold months, North Koreans sometimes bury them in mounds. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Individual wild animals discovered that they could better survive by hanging around human beings, eating their crops or leftovers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “It’s your legal right. His cattle ruined your crop. He owes you the money for it.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z That is especially true at high altitudes in the Andes, where genetically European women have physiological difficulties even in reproducing, and where native Andean crops still offer the most suitable basis for food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Niran was a tall man with a closely cropped black beard; his hands and face were streaked with dirt, but it could not disguise his surprise and joy at seeing Shae. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z But rather than simply planting manioc and other annual crops in their gardens until the forest took them over, they planted selected tree crops along with the manioc and managed the transition. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Dothraki hooves had tom the earth and trampled the rye and lentils into the ground, while arakhs and arrows had sown a terrible new crop and watered it with blood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The next afternoon I met a Mexican American crop scientist named Ricardo Salvador, a professor at Iowa State University. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “To authorize your whipping. You,” he said to me, “go call one of the grooms. Tell him to bring a riding crop and meet us in the garden.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Since one cannot live on sugar, the crop grown on plantations could not even feed the people who harvested it. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z His hair was cropped short, his skin a deep golden brown, and he had that sort of lean muscle that came easy to some people through the gift of genetics. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Naturally I did an exhaustive check on my crops, and they're all healthy. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Spencers’ crops didn’t do so good last year, so Mr. Spencer was having trouble paying the mortgage in Baltimore County. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Settlers who used the labor of enslaved Africans wanted limitless land for growing cash crops. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z She dropped the crop and smacked me again in the face with her hand, as she had the day I first landed in New York. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “Of course there isn’t,” said Harry, who became angry every time this subject cropped up. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z For practical purposes, the fact that feeding is interrupted promptly is of course an enormous advantage, for crop damage stops almost as soon as the pathogen is applied. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The Commandant wipes her crop on Barrius’s fatigues before returning it to her belt. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z No spit bugs, good sun, everything comes out right, berries come in, good crop. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Some outlying areas went on to domesticate a few local crops of their own, such as poppies in western Europe and watermelons possibly in Egypt. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Worst, perhaps, in the long run, the exuberant spread of the Green Revolution has pushed many traditional cultivars toward extinction, which in turn reduces the genetic diversity of crops. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Johnny broad-shouldered, in jeans and a pink plaid button- down so old its edges are frayed; nails bitten, hair cropped. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Now they looked alien to her, squat and flat-faced, their black hair cropped unnaturally short. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I’d asked after the myths to get her mind off the crops. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z They constitute 6 of the modern world’s 12 major crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Just like with Shooting Star’s meteoric rise, my admission to Juilliard—if it happens—will create certain complications, or, more accurately, would compound the complications that have already cropped up in the last few months. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z These thoughts dropped on top of the hillock of crop worries in my heart. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The links connecting livestock and crops to germs were unforgettably illustrated for me by a hospital case about which I learned through a physician friend. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t know if I’d actually meet any of the girls on the team, but at least I’d be working out with a new crop of gymnasts who were up and coming like me. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z As if in answer, Stannis kept his own whiskers cropped tight and short. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She and I used to spend all day at the mall, wandering from store to store trying on crop tops and miniskirts that we were never allowed to have. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z One morning, after George had his crop planted, I sat down with him at his kitchen table and we talked about the problem. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z As a rule, young men wore it long on one side, in an equine mane, but cropped the other side short, which prevented it from getting tangled in their bow strings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As a result, the next crop was smaller. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z But then I didn’t know that Uncle Chester hadn’t had bumper crops. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The grass was cropped short by all the unicorns, bulls, and homeless fauns that grazed here. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z For centuries, people in Britain and the rest of Europe grew crops and grazed livestock on large areas of land that were not owned by anyone. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z It is also clear for Mesoamerica’s staple grain of corn, which spread to become a dominant crop elsewhere in the Americas as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z How did certain wild plants get turned into crops? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When Chimbus saw white settlers planting coffee, they began growing coffee themselves as a cash crop. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Despite the tremendous cost of the British attacks on its villages and crops, the enormous Cherokee Nation remained strong, with a well-functioning government. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z So far, I’ve emphasized direct and indirect values of crops and livestock as food. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “And think of the poor farmer when it doesn’t rain all year: if there wasn’t an average yearly rainfall of 37 inches in this part of the country, all his crops would wither and die.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z All these examples concern insects that attack agricultural crops. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The mill was right next to the crop, so that growing and grinding took place in the same spot. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Matthias,” she said, running her fingers through the close crop of his hair. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z We saw nothing except grass, trees, crops, and the hard-packed dirt path as we moved. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z That’s not to say that Australia had no potential crops at all, or that Aboriginal Australians would never have developed indigenous food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One method is to examine a map of the geographic distribution of the crop’s or animal’s wild ancestor, and to reason that domestication must have taken place in the area where the wild ancestor occurs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Finally, their wild ancestors required very little genetic change to be converted into crops—for instance, in wheat, just the mutations for nonshattering stalks and uniform quick germination. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Things got worse when Papá began to have back problems and had trouble picking crops. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z One-tenth of the U.S. corn crop is turned into processed food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In contrast, crops and animals moved easily between Eurasian societies thousands of miles apart but at the same latitude and sharing similar climates and day lengths. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The salt water from the sea ruined the crops, and fires razed whole regions of cities and towns. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Even now, the memory of that first day still crops up at unexpected times. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z My Bengali mom wears her hair cropped close to her head, too. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z If Earth Mother remained dry and empty, if she didn’t give us a beautiful golden crop this year, the people would go hungry. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “Yet should a crop fail or a war be lost, we cut his throat to appease the gods and choose a new prince from amongst the forty families.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z More creatures like these moved about among the houses, or tended crops, or worked among the trees. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Every sheep and goat had its wobbly twins, the forest was teeming, and the first crops of the hillsides were coming into fruit. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z They were mostly self-pollinating: that is, the crop varieties could pollinate themselves and pass on their own desirable genes unchanged, instead of having to hybridize with other varieties less useful to humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Again as we discussed above, the crop’s rapid spread preempted any possible further attempts to domesticate its relatives, as well as to redomesticate its ancestor. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Those cattle had trampled everything in their path, saplings, grass, and crops alike. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z We walk through the dawn, passing crops and meadows of wildflowers. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Organic farmers generally use less fuel to grow their crops. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Then Randall had a dream one night about a white sea that ranged as far as the eye could see and switched his crop from dependable indigo to Sea Island cotton. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z A lot of young girls studied this in order to take part in the big obon festival held every August, a festival honoring dead ancestors, asking them to bring good crops in the fall. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Axis orientations affected the rate of spread of crops and livestock, and possibly also of writing, wheels, and other inventions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The cow was gone and no crops planted. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Flies bit and tormented, caterpillars ate valuable crops. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “But with the Strawberry farm you can also have barbecued spareribs, and bread from the wheat crop.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z A series of hard frosts had killed the crops they’d planted afterward, leaving only mud and ash and wilted, rotting stalks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A short, rotund woman with cropped and curled hair, beautifully clear, dark skin, and a radiant smile walked out. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Some crops were probably domesticated first or independently in Japan, Korea, and tropical Southeast Asia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Aztecs required tribute in the form of military service, physical labor, crops, and manufactured products. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z She taps again, and the image moves closer to its targets, a man with close- cropped hair and a woman with long, dark hair covering one side of her face. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z We can thus be sure that it was indeed possible to develop the wild plant into a useful crop, and we have to ask why that wild species was not domesticated in certain areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Instead of toxic pesticides, crops are sprayed with natural substances, like BT, a pesticide made from a common soil bacteria. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Food was scarce; in a nation at war, much of it occupied by enemy troops, it was difficult to grow and gather crops. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Even with the modern availability of synthetic fertilizers produced by chemical factories, the major source of crop fertilizer today in most societies is still animal manure—especially of cows, but also of yaks and sheep. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A thunderstorm broke open, and with a strength as mighty as the thirst of crops and animals, the rain poured down on our heads. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Gardens—where we grow the crops. Water’s pumped in through pipes in the ground—always has been, or we’d have starved to death a long time ago. Never rains here. Never.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z No European ever saw sumpweed growing in Indian gardens, because it had disappeared as a crop by the time that European colonization of the Americas began, in A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The reason they weren’t helping now was that Jiichan and Baachan needed everything perfect so that they would get a good crop. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Not until May were the men harvesting the best of the crop. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z These are familiar to us precisely because they also spread into climatically similar adjacent areas of Europe, thence to America and Australia, and became some of the staple crops of temperate-zone agriculture around the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The newest crop of cadets grow wild in their urgency to prove themselves. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Once the crop had become available, there was no further need to gather it from the wild and thereby set it on the path to domestication again. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z However, those tropical African crops could never be transmitted across South Africa’s Fish River, beyond which they were stopped by Mediterranean conditions to which they were not adapted. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Those Fertile Crescent crops spread into climatically similar adjacent areas of North Africa and laid the foundations for the rise of ancient Egyptian civilization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Her dark hair was cropped short and straight around her head, and she wore riding leathers and a light shirt of silvered ringmail. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z First thing Deydey noticed was the corn, how tall it had grown, how the rain had plumped up the ears, what a good crop they had this year. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z These examples demonstrate that the sole missing ingredients required to sustain food production in large areas of the Americas were domestic animals and crops themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Violet and me worked his crops for two years. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides increasing advisors, he had authorized the spraying of highly toxic Agent Orange and other defoliants to destroy enemy cover in the jungle, as well as rice crops in areas controlled by the Viet Cong. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Proto-Malayo-Polynesian contains words for many tropical crops like taro, breadfruit, bananas, yams, and coconuts, for which no word can be reconstructed in Proto-Austronesian. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Her cropped hair, a shade similar to her shorts, seemed too lank and sensible, and in that room where all things were so carefully covered, her shaved knees and thighs too exposed. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z That’s not great for crops, but it’s good for raising horses. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In contrast, crop diffusion from Indonesia south to southwestern Australia was completely impossible, and diffusion over the much shorter distance from Mexico to the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Contrast this quick evolution of wheat and barley with the story of corn, the leading cereal crop of the New World. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The arrival of founder domesticates enabled local people to become sedentary, and thereby increased the likelihood of local crops’ evolving from wild plants that were gathered, brought home and planted accidentally, and later planted intentionally. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Late that summer, still bruising from his failed exam, Mendel planted a crop of peas. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The voyage supposedly took three years, with frequent stops in the foul-sailing season to build temporary settlements and sow crops for the next year’s push. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z His white beard was cropped close and his white eyebrows overhung his eyes like mustaches. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The conditions usually responsible for these losses in Oklahoma were those made familiar by repetition over the years: the application of insecticides to crops, a heavy rain, and poison washed into the ponds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Of course everyone else—Blake the Klansman included—has been cropped out of the version making national news. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I stayed long enough to mend some fences, help plant some crops, but that was it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In a broad reach of savanna, the Beni’s original inhabitants built raised fields—artificial platforms of soil that lift crops above the floodwaters. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She’s cropped Nora out so it’s just the two of them, Henry sporting a wide, teasing grin under his sunglasses and June planting a kiss on his cheek. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Those lands became productive not only for European settlers but also, in some cases, for Native Americans, as soon as Europeans introduced suitable domestic animals and crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Heldred eventually controlled the foothills around the Shalda. This meant that he controlled the mountains themselves. They started to plant crops, their nomadic lifestyle was abandoned, and they slowly began to—” “Get to the point?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z James contented himself with the security of a fashionable crop, the slow, inevitable accumulations of his estate. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z When a widely useful invention does crop up in one society, it then tends to spread in either of two ways. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Then they drove away to deposit the crop in the potato barns with earth heaped high about their sides to prevent freezing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They tended the crops and watched over the cattle, just as ordinary children did during the daytime. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z The Fertile Crescent’s biological diversity over small distances contributed to a fourth advantage—its wealth in ancestors not only of valuable crops but also of domesticated big mammals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The land for growing crops was laid out in long, narrow strips. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Even if they hadn't, the freezing cold would have killed the crops. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the places I regularly visited with these junior officers was known as the “gardens,” a series of smallholdings on the edge of the prison grounds where crops were grown for the prison’s kitchen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They also discussed the harm rodents do to crops and food supplies and the rapidity with which they multiply.’” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Only a nun would crop her hair so close to her head. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z In fact, the “bloodbath” school of criminology was touting exactly the opposite theory—that an increase in the teenage share of the population would produce a crop of superpredators who would lay the nation low. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Mesoamerica would deserve its place in the human pantheon if its inhabitants had only created maize, in terms of harvest weight the world’s most important crop. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Fill then, he and his family lived in the next village over and worked their own farm, tending crops and livestock. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to make more crops so as to use his surplus for trade with the white men on the coast. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “And I happened to have my crop in my hand.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She’s just as warm and soft as I remember, but her cropped hair is now entirely gray. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He had shot at them to keep them from devouring his crops, but it had never occurred to him that those insignificant rodents could be turned into ladies’ coats. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z These two examples will also demonstrate in detail a fact critical to history: that indigenous crops from different parts of the globe were not equally productive. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If crops throughout the U.S., throughout the world for that matter, died from lack of sunlight, how long would New York City continue to get food? The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Assuming the crop came on strong, I couldn’t harvest forty acres on my own. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He frightened her, telling her about the chemicals that were sprayed on crops, the chemicals fed to chickens to make them grow quickly, and the chemicals used to give fruits perfect skin. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z As a consequence, most Fertile Crescent crops grow well in France and Japan but poorly at the equator. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Along the way we talk about the weather and about the poor crops to our right and left, and finally we stop talking. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t register the zing of wood cutting through the air until the Commandant’s riding crop slices into my back. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z We've been told that anti-Semitism has cropped up in circles where once it would have been unthinkable. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Food production based on eastern U.S. crops alone had been insufficient to trigger the boom, for reasons that are easy to specify. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She talked about finishing college and going to law school, but distractions kept cropping up. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z ‘But don’t clay for these here bricks cost money? And don’t it take money to rent land and raise crops on?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Like the rest of the world, most of the present Austronesian realm—Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, and many Pacific islands—was originally occupied by hunter-gatherers lacking pottery, polished stone tools, domestic animals, and crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Somehow, I just knew that I wouldn’t be around when the crops came up. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In Europe and Asia, farmers try to avoid stressing the soil by rotating crops; they may plant wheat one year, legumes the next, and let the field lie fallow in the year following. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In addition, just as Eurasia’s east-west axis permitted many of these Chinese animals and crops to spread westward in ancient times, West Asian domesticates also spread eastward to China and became important there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “This is September. Harvesttime would be wrapping up soon and then there would be nothing till next spring. Most of the crop goes to the owner anyway.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Spiral arms outline the region where the latest crop of newly hatched stars is being formed, but not necessarily where such middle-aged stars as the Sun happen to be. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It crops up in the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant books. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The invention of grafting was hardly just a matter of some nomad relieving herself at a latrine and returning later to be pleasantly surprised by the resulting crop of fine fruit. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Conversely, two of the eight founder crops could not have been domesticated anywhere in the world except in the Fertile Crescent, since they did not occur wild elsewhere. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Carlos and the fellas had been cropped out. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Hamilton spoke mostly of the hail that had ruined some of the crops. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “There are still plenty of fish,” Matty pointed out, “and the fields are full of crops.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Moreover, food production even in its areas of origin became enriched by the addition of crops, livestock, and techniques from other areas of origin. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Even if I had a bumper crop, I didn’t see how I was going to squeeze by. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Cereal crops have the virtues of being fast growing, high in carbohydrates, and yielding up to a ton of edible food per hectare cultivated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z First, many of the Fertile Crescent’s founder crops don’t even occur in the wild outside Southwest Asia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Anyone knowledgeable about human societies can cite innumerable examples of societies that refused crops, livestock, and other innovations that would have been productive. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The first complication cropped up soon after Nick's return. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z All the other animals now said that they were wicked and that they should not have caused so much sadness to the growers of the crops. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z The colonizers apparently were not successful at growing crops or hunting. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z When he stepped out of the hospital door the grounds overwhelmed him: the cropped shrubbery, the edged lawns, the undeviadng walks. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z In effect, Europe received its crops, livestock, technology, and writing systems from the Fertile Crescent, which then gradually eliminated itself as a major center of power and innovation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z News of the failed crop came in, and sitting in the coffeehouse, the boys had watched the prices on the chalkboard rise, trying to contain their glee. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z We left the fruit on the floor in a shady corner of the room, near a girl with cropped blond hair and a midriff-baring black shirt. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z It appeared to me increasingly paradoxical, and it has been my experience that when paradox crops up too often for comfort, it means that certain factors are missing in the equation. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Like my mountain, the tilled land eroded and grew stones, not crops, and the farms were abandoned. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They planted their crops and toiled in the fields. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Good. That’s what we do here along with crops, and pigs, and such things.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Even without acquiring crops, Khoisan peoples who acquired cows and sheep around 2,000 years ago displaced Khoisan hunter-gatherers over much of southern Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Beginning in the spring of 1919, the insect known as the boll weevil had destroyed entire cotton crops, throwing thousands of black agricultural workers out of work. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “I just wrote facts I found in library books. I didn’t mean that Ralph personally ran around harming crops.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Tobacco was only one of the crops grown at Adena villages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z If he declined Trip’s offer, Frank figured he would offend the guy and end up as sorghum or wheat or some other cash crop. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She’s wearing a pale orange crop top and a leather miniskirt, and the bulk of her hair is swept to one side. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He cropped the picture, cutting out the buildings along the edges so that the eye would follow the street down to the water. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Rapid spread of a crop may preempt domestication not only of the same wild ancestral species somewhere else but also of related wild species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She ate until her crop stuck out and she could eat no more. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z ‘If you want to grow stones, Mr. Gribley, this is the place for you. Here in these mountains, stones are our best crop.’ On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, Miss Destiny, the rat crop of New York practically supports our wild raptors now that we’ve wiped out most of their natural food. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The state of the crops, the price of fat cattle, the mysterious ailments of swine, I relish them all. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z If I suited Pop’s fancy, I might be invited to one of her sherry parties and meet her current crop of foreign girls. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Which meant they lost a month planting their own cotton...which meant their crop didn’t have enough time to mature before it was time to harvest. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He is slight, perhaps five feet six inches tall, with closely cropped hair, wearing wire- rimmed spectacles. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “By God, who will build the houses? Who will grow the crops? Do they think they can eat the gold and silver they are hoping to find?” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The girls unhitched the mules, and sent them down along the eddying stream to crop sweet grass. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The brown field stretched out, the remains of last year’s crop plowed into the soil. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Holly Short had nut-brown skin, cropped auburn hair, and hazel eyes. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “Can’t say I’m surprised, there were quite a crop of lovelies out. One or two asked about you.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “If we sell the seed we may as well give up the land too, for how shall we raise a new crop?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Dicey looked at her grandmother, glad because it meant her grandmother was thinking of putting in a cash crop, to repay herself the money she’d spent on the Tillermans. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z North China, South China, the coast, and the interior contributed different crops, livestock, technologies, and cultural features to the eventually unified China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Naturally, wheels and writing aren’t directly linked to latitude and day length in the way crops are. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The crows would surely avoid it and the crops would be protected. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He knew that seeing that pathetic young soldier had upset her, and he knew, too, that she was thinking that the young soldier was not the reason the crops failed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Highland Mexico and the Andes would similarly have been suitable for many of each other’s crops and domestic animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He said he would rent out the farm, hire someone to care for the animals and the crops, and rent a house for us in Euclid. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z In early stages of food production, people simultaneously collected wild foods and raised cultivated ones, and diverse types of collecting activities diminished in importance at different times as reliance on crops increased. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z With the help of hired hands, Garfield grew crops and raised animals to supplement the income from his government position and law practice. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I tried to focus on the projects I found most meaningful, including my efforts to recruit a new and more diverse crop of summer associates. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He would dig up the poppy fields and put in normal crops. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Claire had learned, already, from Alys that summer is a time of year, the time of sunshine and crops and the birth of young animals. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Two crops a year are not uncommon; in terms of yield per acre, peach palms are typically much more productive than rice, beans, or maize. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He told them what crops they would produce and how much they would be paid. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z For example, hunter-gatherers in parts of southeastern Europe had quickly adopted Southwest Asian cereal crops, pulse crops, and livestock simultaneously as a complete package by around 6000 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Carrots absorb more insecticide than any other crop studied; if the chemical used happens to be lindane, carrots actually accumulate higher concentrations than are present in the soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z During harvest season the crops from the fields are turned over to the village chief, who then rations the food to the fifty families. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z All those not employed defending the Abbey would husband the crops and gather in supplies for the larders in the event of a prolonged siege. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I stared out the window and watched the clouds and the crops, planted in neat square rows, and I tried to remember every detail so I could tell Liz all about it. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They made it by scraping the seeds which others had collected, chewing up the scrapings till they made a kind of paste or soup, and then swallowing it into their own crops. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Her crop is empty. She’s hungry. Probably lost on migration. “Twenty-five thousand is a lot of dough.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Scientists speak out against the use of certain neonicotinoids, and some countries limit or ban their use on crops, but the rate of collapse remains unchanged. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z At about the same time, though, another group of late domesticates arose with much less effort, as wild plants that established themselves initially as weeds in fields of intentionally cultivated crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There are patchworks of orchards and crops, all shades of green, spotted with cows and farmhouses. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Said so many crops was blowed away that lots of sharecroppers starved and even the Tanners got sunk so low they had to sell off some slaves. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z If in good years they had settled in villages, grown crops, and produced babies, those large populations would have starved and died off in drought years, when the land could support far fewer people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As for livestock, Eurasian sheep made it possible to extend food production to arid areas of Australia unsuitable for agriculture, and Eurasian cattle joined crops in moister areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They're too cramped to plant crops in, and I want to be able to drive them around anyway. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It sounds like they’re having a normal conversation about the weather and the crops. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Well before other crops began to arrive from elsewhere, Native Americans settled in eastern U.S. river valleys and developed intensified food production based on local crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This year’s crop of thru-hikers had been passing through for the past month. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z If they didn’t cut down trees, they could not grow crops or feed cattle. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z That’s an important phenomenon whose manifestations extend far beyond the adoption of new crops, and to which we shall return in Chapter 13. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Corn is an English word that has been used to describe | grain crops including wheat and oats. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Tree-ear knew that the rice must be from last year’s crop; in the fields surrounding the village this season’s rice had only just begun to grow. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z He picked crops in fields, his back aching, a straw hat full of holes the only thing shielding him from, the sun. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z His hair was a cap of coarse red-black wire cropped about his ears, and in one hand he held a sad cloth sack. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But, like all farmers, he had to contend with high taxes, high freight rates, and land so worn out that he might spend more for guano than he could get for his cotton crop. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Farmers several miles from the plant began to report unexplained sickness among livestock; they complained of extensive crop damage. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Alas, despite their nutritional advantage, most of these eastern U.S. crops suffered from serious disadvantages in other respects. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For decades most researchers believed manioc, like maize, had no wild ancestor; the crop was thought to have arisen from a chance combination of several relatives. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z No official or private concern seems to have been felt about the fire ant as a menace to crops or livestock. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Hardly enough for a cash crop, but they were learning, and in another year, after another harvest, they would be experienced old farmers and sugarers, they told each other. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Why was the spread of crops from the Fertile Crescent so rapid? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Those imported domesticates may be thought of as “founder” crops and animals, because they founded local food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Then one night this was all done, the crop was gathered. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z "They've just dried a fresh crop and are plucking off the buds." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Each winter the waters withdrew, leaving behind a thick new layer of mud so black and fertile that two crops grew in Egypt while other lands eked out one. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z In our book, the goddess of crops and the earth had a sad mouth and flowers around her, just like the girl in the locket. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z One day while I was down the mountain, I returned home by way of the old farmhouse site to check the apple crop. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z She has closely cropped brown hair, with little tendril curls framing her face. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z "How can we talk of peace while the Lannisters spread like a pestilence over my father's domains, stealing his crops and slaughtering his people? I say again, we ought to be marching on Harrenhal." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Table 5.1 summarizes, for these and other areas of local domestication, some of the best-known crops and animals and the earliest known dates of domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Useless to ask about the crops, it all depends on hard work and fertilizer.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “I can follow an ox. Sow seed. Weed. Gather crops. Thresh wheat and barley.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “All these villages to inspect, and no crops to collect.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The woman looked at him then, examining him from the soles of his muddy feet to his sweaty, cropped hair, and once more she smiled. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Even modern European plant geneticists have failed to develop any crop except macadamia nuts from Australia’s native wild flora. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Soon everybody talked about how sorry they were that they had not come to the hills earlier, rather than letting the wild animals eat their crops and drag off their children. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Then it was discovered that the greater part of the potato crop had been frosted in the clamps, which had not been covered thickly enough. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “Ain’t you folks up here in Illinois a mite behind with yore crops this year, Aunt Ellen?” he called, his voice suggesting laughter. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Bananas and other tropical Asian crops for which Africa’s climate is eminently suitable, and which today are among the most productive staples of tropical African agriculture, were unable to reach Africa by land routes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Knowing she wouldn’t stand by to watch cattle trample our crops, my fear turned to confusion and I sidled up to Ma. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Thus, the crops and animals of the Fertile Crescent’s first farmers came to meet humanity’s basic economic needs: carbohydrate, protein, fat, clothing, traction, and transport. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Together they kept the rabbits and groundhogs from eating the farmers’ crops and the rats from eating the corn stored in cribs and bins. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z It was primarily a storage center for crops collected throughout the empire. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The combination of the new crops and the greatly increased use of artificial fertilizer and irrigation led to the well-known Green Revolution. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was called sharecropping, and it involved black families raising and harvesting crops for white landowners in exchange for a humble place to live and a meager share of the crops. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “It keeps cropping up, doesn’t it?” she said. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Once Pacific peoples spread beyond the range of wool-yielding domestic animals and fiber plant crops and hence of woven clothing, they became dependent on pounded bark “cloth” for their clothing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We spent several days gathering white oak acorns and groundnuts, harvesting the blueberry crop and smoking fish. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I would harness the horses, but someone else rode in the wagon while I loaded the crops. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z By about four thousand years ago the Indians of the lower Amazon were growing crops—at least 138 of them, according to a recent tally. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Jomon sites often contain remains of edible plants that are native to Japan as wild species but are also grown as crops today, including adzuki bean, mung bean, and barnyard millet. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The plain was rich with crops; there were many orchards of fruit trees and beyond the plain the mountains were brown and bare. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Tortoise had become a farmer, and had done nothing but grow crops; Snail, by contrast, had become a trader, and had many trading posts in all parts of the country. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z But four seed crops and a container fall far short of a complete food production package. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The family planted more pumpkins, and soon they had so many in their fields that they were able to sell almost half of their crop, while keeping the rest for themselves. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Thus, agriculture could arise in the Fertile Crescent from domestication of locally available wild plants, without having to wait for the arrival of crops derived from wild plants domesticated elsewhere. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Each year, one field was allowed to lie fallow, and the other two would be planted with a crop different from the one planted there the year before. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Couldn’t raise a decent herd of sheep or cattle, couldn’t even till crops except maybe to feed your family. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Of course, the famous woman poet at my college lived with another woman—a stumpy old Classical scholar with a cropped Dutch cut. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Such increased competition among plants themselves made a major contribution to larger seed size and to many other changes developing during the transformation of wild plants into ancient crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Their residues on the crops to which they are applied are therefore relatively short- lived compared with the chlorinated hydrocarbons. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The old hammerhead was free to drag his nose if he wished, or to pause and crop grass beside the road. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She said that Chris was a lot better, and that he was so happy about the sugar crop going right along in spite of everything that it was helping him to get better. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z If the crop of minute sea vegetation fails, the young shellfish will starve. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z For the most part, that adoption was linked to our adoption of food production, which required us to remain close to our crops, orchards, and stored food surpluses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The painstaking work had just one aim: to plant a crop that would end up taking the life of every worker who touched it. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z A few other minor crops made the trip later, including tobacco, domesticated in Amazonia, then exported north to become the favorite vice of Indians from Mesoamerica to Maine. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Besides, there had been a small crop of grain because of the summer’s drought. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Week after week, I returned to Iowa, watching through the plane window as the seasons changed, as the earth slowly greened and the soybean and corn crops grew in ruler-straight lines. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Thus, Eurasia’s west-east axis allowed Fertile Crescent crops quickly to launch agriculture over the band of temperate latitudes from Ireland to the Indus Valley, and to enrich the agriculture that arose independently in eastern Asia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I came back to the Hab, had some lunch, and worked on my crops for the rest of the sol. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time one thing was paid for something else always would crop up. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “The cost of fertilizer, the cost of renting the farmland, the rent on this house, bad crops for a few years.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Her cropped dark bob, usually in tight waves against her head, is sticking out all over. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Neither Bantu nor white farmers, heirs to thousands of years of farming experience, were subsequently able to develop southern African native plants into food crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In contrast, the next two groups, the Pygmies and Khoisan, include hunter-gatherers without crops or livestock. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The first guy to grow crops on Mars. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A couple of black lines, a tattoo, stretch up from her collar and disappear into her short, cropped hair. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Squashes, gourds, peppers, and chupandilla plums were among the initial crops. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In 1915, Mother Nature added to blacks’ suffering when a tiny insect pest, the boll weevil, spread through the cotton crop, destroying the South’s major source of income. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The crop in the field today is the sum of thousands of individual choices made by community members in the past. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In contrast, many apparently widespread Native American crops prove to consist of related species or even of genetically distinct varieties of the same species, independently domesticated in Mesoamerica, South America, and the eastern United States. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We were one of the last families to leave because Papa felt obligated to stay until the rancher’s cotton had been all picked, even though other farmers had better crops. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z They could clear another field, dig another irrigation canal, sow more crops. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z His skin was pale leather, his beard cropped so short that it might have been painted on. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Low rainfall ruined this year’s crops, and there have been food shortages. Many people have resorted to eating grass. Grass! Can you imagine?” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Rather than depending on just a few crops that could fail, they minimized risk by developing an economy based on a great variety of wild foods, not all of which were likely to fail simultaneously. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Native Americans of the eastern United States domesticated no locally available wild pulse, no fiber crop, no fruit or nut tree. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Later he felt guilty that there was no crop, because he thought that it was his prayers that had kept away the rain. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z His sugar bush was scraggly and his oat crop barely enough to feed his growing family. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z They trailed the boy through the forest, which thinned gradually to a clearing where a small garden and a larger field of crops could be seen. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z She doesn’t reach for her crop or threaten to kill me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I will soon have the garden covered with a crop of sunflowers, but in five weeks it will have to be replanted. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z First, as any modern gardener or farmer still knows by experience, crop yields can be greatly increased by manure applied as fertilizer. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I was the one who filled thy crop — I fed thee, stroked thee, day and night. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Rumors from the big house held that their master meant to dispose of some property to cover debts from the disappointing crop. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Hawaiian labor corvees built elaborate irrigation systems for taro fields yielding up to 24 tons per acre, the highest crop yields in all of Polynesia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Interrupting my thoughts, Mrs. V asks, “What continent produces the largest crop of cacao beans, which give us this chocolate?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z However, that is not surprising, because modern highland staple crops are plant species that do not leave archaeologically visible residues except under exceptional conditions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He plants the seeds after harvest in late summer for the crop the following year. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The remaining surprise is that all of Africa’s indigenous crops—those of the Sahel, Ethiopia, and West Africa—originated north of the equator. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Mama and Grandma were pleased and contented with the crop, but Deydey was jealous of the amount of new corn he saw the crows devouring. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z All these techniques, though developed for the exploitation of wild cereals, were prerequisites to the planting of cereals as crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I tried to picture the serious white people as we’d come to know them, in their suits and hard briefcases and closely cropped hair. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Dad is more open, but he can’t tell me what I really want to know, like why Mom hardly speaks to Abuela or why she still keeps her riding crops from Cuba. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They would be busy with this new work, so the entire village was to help them with their crops and cattle. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Five or six old men were already sitting around in there, talking crops and fussing about the gov’ment in Washington while they cut one another’s hair. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The overseer S. B. Raby explained,“Rachel had a'fine boy last Sunday. Our crop of negroes will I think make up any deficiencies there may be in the cane crop.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “What about our crop? If we don’t start planting soon, the cotton won’t have time to grow.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z For the rest of lunch we talked about my brothers and sisters, about life in Tempe, about the weather, his crops, and anything except his guilt. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Habib had opened a small dry goods store in downtown Kabul to support the family after the opium crops had been destroyed. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z How many gallons—what a wonderful crop!—how perfect the sugaring weather had been for days and weeks. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Since as hunter-gatherers they did not produce crop surpluses available for redistribution or storage, they could not support and feed nonhunting craft specialists, armies, bureaucrats, and chiefs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In her confusion, she packed riding crops and her wedding veil, a watercolor landscape, and a paper sack of birdseed. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Son,” Mr. Lucas said, “I know some World War Two cats who can show you a thing or two if you really want to fly. Leave Crump and his crop duster alone.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z With nothing left but a soon-to-wither manioc crop, it could hardly be a strategic advantage for the combatants to seize on. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z That is, seeds were sown by being thrown in handfuls, resulting in a whole field devoted to a single crop. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The next group of areas consists of ones that did domesticate at least a couple of local plants or animals, but where food production depended mainly on crops and animals that were domesticated elsewhere. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the spring of 2010, as food shortages again became severe, the government launched a massive back-to-the-farm campaign to persuade city dwellers to move to the countryside and raise crops. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z "Helping to repair villages and grow crops," I said, trying not to sound defensive. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The sun’s energy could be used to generate electricity, and to heat the town, and to grow crops. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z This diversity, with many different types of crops, allowed the farmer to get by if prices fell for any one crop. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z They could be readily stored, unlike many later crops such as strawberries and lettuce. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “The cream of the crop,” she called them. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In the clearing he had made last year, Pa was plowing around the stumps and putting in his crops. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I'll need to cut up all the potatoes from this crop to seed the rest of the field. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z If the crop is good, we will have more beets than we can eat; but the object is to harvest the seed. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Someday perhaps I shall demonstrate to all of Africa how to grow crops! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They say once you grow crops somewhere, you have officially "colonized" it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z This weekend his white beard is cropped close to his face, and he is wearing a linen safari suit. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z The cheers continue, and the crop comes down again. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z A few crops, notably Mexican corn, did indeed spread to the other region in the pre-Columbian era. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The land is hilly and really too steep for row crops. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z And the worst of the heat wasn’t in the Southwest, where people expected it and crops and lifestyles were adapted to it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He figured we didn’t have enough to seed the crops next year or pay interest on the loan from the bank to cover the money he wasn’t able to pay back. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Rondon not only helped brand the cattle but also deftly hunted the jaguars that preyed on them, and the wild pigs that destroyed the crops. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Thanks to their wet-climate crops inherited from their West African homeland, the Bantu were able to farm in wet areas of East Africa unsuitable for all those previous occupants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Also, I figured it was time to start up a seed crop. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Such cases can often be detected by analyzing the resulting morphological, genetic, or chromosomal differences between specimens of the same crop or domestic animal in different areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The sphinx and pyramids were built by people fed on crops originally native to the Fertile Crescent, not to Egypt. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Taller than Uncle Turu by a head, it had protected and fertilized our crops and received our prayers and sacrifices from the time of our ancestors. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z His hair, cropped close to his skull in the Abnegation style, does not help this impression. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z But those crops originated in tropical Southeast Asia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Corn, their staple crop, was stored in granaries and distributed equitably by clan mothers, the oldest woman from each extended family. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Such controlled fires helped to clear space in the forest for growing corn and other crops. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not the fish or crops,” he said. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Francie noticed that some already had their summer haircut: hair cropped so short that there were nicks in the scalp where the clippers had bitten too deeply. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She could have helped her father buy seeds and tools for next year’s crop, a couple of new chickens, or maybe that sewing machine for her mother! Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z His lips are red, and his orange-red beard is neat, closely cropped. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Putting turkeys and grape vines together means getting two crops off of the same piece of land. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She spots the blue of the women’s dresses and kerchiefs in the crop rows of the eleven-acre vegetable garden. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z In the winter when there were no crops and no pay, fifty cents for a possum and two dollars for a coonhide bought flour and overall jackets with blanket linings. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The old man dry-farmed beans and some corn two years hand running, but during those two years the rains never came, or they came too late, and his crops failed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know. Usually with a poor crop, we at least get the higher prices. Only thing that staying the same right now seems to be the mortgage payment.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z From that day on, for the next ten years, while we traveled from place to place throughout California, following the crops and living in migrant labor camps, I feared being caught by the Border Patrol. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z The hay came down like a mountain slope to the other end of the barn, and there was a level place as yet unfilled with the new crop. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z By 1957, most of the old union leaders had followed the Captain into retirement, and a new crop was eager to show their worth to the rank and file. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Most of the wild plant species from which our crops were derived vary genetically from area to area, because alternative mutations had become established among the wild ancestral populations of different areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Farming there had to await the arrival from faraway Europe, on European ships, of crops adapted to Europe’s cool climate and short growing season. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, is against law. Government tell you what to do with your crop. But I will not listen! We will make more money this way! Sell on black market instead of to government.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Wyatt said Terryl also helped organize community meetings with religious leaders, the bishops, who often were the first people contacted when a problem cropped up. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Instead, the Cape has a Mediterranean climate of winter rains, in which the Bantu summer-rain crops do not grow. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Most depended on raised-field agriculture, in which farmers grow crops on flat, artificially constructed surfaces created for the same reason that home gardeners grow vegetables on raised beds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We ended up at school with the cream of the American crop, the Hoover girl and the Hanes twins and the Scott girls and the Reese kid who got incredible care packages once a week. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “It’s a special remembrance for our own Lady of Chains. We reenact her story. Plus we give thanks for the honey crop. The Daughters of Mary come. It’s our favorite two days of the year.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Villas and gardens disappeared like crops under a tiller. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z When a wholesale application of heptachlor was made to the farmlands in Louisiana in 1957, the result was the unleashing of one of the worst enemies of the sugarcane crop — the sugarcane borer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Apparently, if they did not get the cane into the boiling vat within forty-eight hours—preferably twenty-four hours—their crop would be ruined. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z In the soft earth of a bean, potato, black-eyed pea and asparagus patch there is plenty of food left over for mice after the human crop has been gathered. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z That conclusion is clearest for the eastern United States, where less than a dozen crops were domesticated, including small-seeded grains but no large-seeded grains, pulses, fiber crops, or cultivated fruit or nut trees. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Her hair is half an inch long, a new crop of head fur, short and spiky. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Specifically, barley and emmer wheat, the two earliest important crops of the Fertile Crescent, rank respectively 3rd and 13th in seed size among those top 56. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Her hair was cropped short, her face red with exertion. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Chiron told me the camp grew a nice crop for export to New York restaurants and Mount Olympus. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z But whether or not the selection of wild edible plants by ancient hikers relied on conscious or unconscious criteria, the resulting evolution of wild plants into crops was at first an unconscious process. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Beginning in the 1950s, scientists developed hybrid strains of wheat, rice, maize, and other crops that were vastly more productive than traditional varieties. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z His black hair was closely cropped and his clothes looked even more old-fashioned than Scipio's jacket. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z No remains of the crops actually being grown in the highlands 6,000 years ago have been preserved in archaeological sites. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Not only did potatoes grow in places where other crops could not, the plant was an ally in smallholders’ ceaseless struggle against the economic and political elite. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I'm beginning to see that crops on Mars are extremely prolific, thanks to the billions of dollars' worth of life support equipment around me. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Last come crop names that aren’t consistent within language groups at all, but instead follow trade routes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The talk around the fire was about the new overseer, about the com crop, about the weather, but it ended with the subject of freedom—just as it always did. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the crops would go to the people, and some would go to the baboons. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z The beechnuts are abundant this year, and so are the hickory and butter nuts, but the acorn crop is poor. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A corresponding example within Eurasia involved the eastern limit of Fertile Crescent crops, which spread rapidly westward to the Atlantic Ocean and eastward to the Indus Valley without encountering a major barrier. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The fire ant was pictured as a serious threat to southern agriculture through destruction of crops and to wildlife because of attacks on the young of ground-nesting birds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But as I studied the closely cropped head and the boyish slenderness of his neck, I decided he was just not used to riding around with ladies. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He had his hair cut short, cropped above his ears, and the drawing was in pencil so you couldn’t tell what color his eyes were, but they were dark, and wide, and sad. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Hence if a productive crop is already available, incipient farmers will surely proceed to grow it rather than start all over again by gathering its not yet so useful wild relative and redomesticating it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Harvesting the remainder of the summer squash crop was no less tiring than it had been the day before. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z In this light, one can examine a crop widespread in prehistoric times and ask whether all of its varieties show the same wild mutation or same transforming mutation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Even for valuable crops, the times of domestication vary greatly: for instance, peas were domesticated by 8000 B.C., olives around 4000 B.C., strawberries not until the Middle Ages, and pecans not until 1846. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Carbon joins with oxygen to form carbon dioxide, which plants need to live, and nitrogen is in the air we breathe and the fertilizer we need to grow crops. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The soybean has become the second major crop in the industrial food chain, taking turns each year in the field with corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The languages and genes of those homeland inhabitants, as well as their livestock, crops, technologies, and writing systems, became dominant in the ancient and modern world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I imagined myself in crop tops around town, or in a bikini by the pool, my belly ring catching the sunlight. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z However, these early fruit and nut trees were still the easiest such crops to cultivate. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The peerless laboratory facilities and distinguished faculty of New Haven, Connecticut, attracted an especially promising crop of young researchers. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Of all the food-acquiring methods of Aboriginal Australians, millet harvesting is perhaps the one most likely to have evolved eventually into crop production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Villages filled with children and old people, midday meals to break up the workday, churches, graveyards, farmers selling crops, town halls with birth records, death notices. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Imaginary numbers never appeared in linear equations, but they began to crop up in quadratic ones. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In Hawaii, planters first brought men—only men—from China to work the crop. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Hick came in from King City. Just sold his crop. Bought out the house. Dropped seven hundred not counting what he give the girls.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Wherever Tehlu stopped to offer men the choice of path, Encanis had been there just before, killing crops and poisoning wells. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She was a tall, painfully thin woman with hair dyed an unnatural flaxen and cropped in a manner reminiscent of Dorothy Hamill. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Mami had come back from New York with cropped hair that formed a curly black ring around her face. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The first thing corn did was push aside the European crops the new settlers brought with them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z We got our crops in, but I noticed they would have done better with more rain. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the same way, the early unconscious stages of crop evolution from wild plants consisted of plants evolving in ways that attracted humans to eat and disperse their fruit without yet intentionally growing them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z An ivory- handled riding crop lay neatly across his lap. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, we find two sets of African crops whose wild ancestors occur just south of the Sahara, and which are adapted to summer rains and less seasonal variation in day length. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Today, the staple crops of highland agriculture are the recently introduced sweet potato, along with taro, bananas, yams, sugarcane, edible grass stems, and several leafy vegetables. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Bring a face mask and a garbage bag. I’ll supply the latex gloves. And when you say your prayers tonight, ask for a fresh crop of corpses.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z We talked about the crops, and about people, and he gave us a message to take to Betsy Read. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The crops, the machines, the crews, and the fields look the same. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z They would not castrate or shear animals unless the moon was right, and they would not gather crops or save next year’s seeds unless the moon dictated. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “In my opinion too much is taken for granted. We do not know whether all weeds in crops are harmful or whether some of them are useful,” says Dr. Briejer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “We all have them. I suppose the crops failed and you starved.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z When this chemical was introduced in 1955, the manufacturer applied for a tolerance which would sanction the presence of small residues on any crops that might be sprayed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They knew immediately what it was that had done so much damage to their crop. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Both men had cropped hair, but the woman’s brilliant orange hair was filled with leaves and debris from the woods. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Several hundred species of wild bees take part in the pollination of cultivated crops — 100 species visiting the flowers of alfalfa alone. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The new crop of horses coming into the barn was a big one, and the stable string had to be culled. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “When Jesus said ast and ye shall receive, I don’t think He meant us to pray ‘Lord, spare my child,’ or ‘Make it rain for the crops,’ or ‘Don’t let my bizness fail.’ Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She spoke with people who had been forced to come to the city after their villages had been destroyed by American bombs, their crops wiped out by Agent Orange. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In these and other areas where food production depended on the arrival of founder crops from elsewhere, did local hunter-gatherers themselves adopt those founder crops from neighboring farming peoples and thereby become farmers themselves? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I mean he has some fantasy they’re all belly-button crop tops and low-rider Daisy Dukes. It’s moronic. He’s going to learn soon enough that all that eye shadow smudges like hell.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z On the hillsides old crops dead and flattened. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The shot was cropped well—the Saint Bernard’s eyes looked up while the kitten looked down, drawing the viewer’s eyes to the expressions on their faces. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Ten to fourteen bushels of wheat would have been most of his crop. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z By a method termed glotto-chronology, based on calculations of how rapidly words tend to change over historical time, comparative linguistics can even yield estimated dates for domestications or crop arrivals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Next come crops whose names are consistent only among the languages falling within a small subgroup of those southern Nigerian languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z These arose with the intensification of agriculture — the devotion of immense acreages to a single crop. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The next-to-last set of African crops arose from wild ancestors in the wet climate of West Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Beneath us, the old sheep, her wool in dirty clumps, cropped wild herbs. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z On crops this is not a problem — even a dust can be used. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Six crops of persimmons and wild grapes had ripened. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I could imagine what a disappointing wish that would be for a six-year-old, but I had to plant crops. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Such things did not help him bring in a crop or keep a scrap of cloth on his children’s backs. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The princes cornered him in fury, leaping on him to drag him out and crop his ears and nose. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Miss Love trimmed the mustache into a pencil-thin line and cropped his hair down from a mane to short as mine. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The evidence includes ground stone tools, pottery, bones of domestic pigs, and crop remains. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Pottery, obsidian, and fishhooks similarly testify to some Jomon trade with Korea, Russia, and Okinawa—as does the arrival of the half-a-dozen Asian mainland crops that I already mentioned. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Farmers using arsenic dusts over long periods have been afflicted with chronic arsenic poisoning; livestock have been poisoned by crop sprays or weed killers containing arsenic. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A mere dozen species account for over 80 percent of the modern world’s annual tonnage of all crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The crops grew and the people feasted, always giving praise to the Marked Girl. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z And finally, anyone who was healthy enough and willing enough to pick crops was hauled in to help and that was where I came in. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Yes, the plowing would still go on and there’d be a crop, someone to reap it and mill it, others to eat it, and not everyone would be dead... Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Her hair was a deep black, cropped short and pointing in every direction. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The boys who wanted to play ball and such with Jay played in the open field away from the house and the crops so they didn’t damage anything. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z They’d pack the car and drive all the way up to Minnesota to work the crops. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z We raised our children and reared our crops; we let infants grow, and property develop. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z They compiled a wish list of a half dozen candidates, among them the young Yale instructor widely considered back East to be the best of the current crop of fellows: Ernest O. Lawrence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “The rice crop will do well this year, and the market has gone up. Let’s plan on making a bigger harvest next season.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Similarly mournful love songs were cropping up all over Europe during this period, their woeful lyrics gaining popularity in courts, noble houses, and other places where a sheet of printed music could be afforded. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The old people used to say a pinch of dirt in the mouth can tell tobacco's story: what crops are ready for picking what needs to be left to grow. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Another area where local domestication appears to have followed the arrival of Southwest Asian founder crops is the Indus Valley region of the Indian subcontinent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The harvest was just weeks away, and little Willy was sure that if the crop was a good one, Grandfather would get well. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At the opposite extreme are regions in which food production certainly began with an abrupt arrival of foreign people as well as of foreign crops and animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “And now you have brought a pest that will eat our sacred crops!” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The sheriff shook hands and discussed the weather and the crops until Horace was ready to get down to business. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Like I said,” he continued, “crops is down, but prices is too.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Since you couldn’t use a telephoto lens underwater, he’d probably zoomed in and cropped the shot tighter. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z The slow passage or complete halt of crops and livestock along Africa’s north-south axis had important consequences. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But if they planted seed from that first crop, yields dropped again, since the second generation of corn was not identical to the first. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Thus, by Roman times, almost all of today’s leading crops were being cultivated somewhere in the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z While there still was not enough light to see the crops, Lupita could make out the silhouettes of other trucks and people standing about. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z In addition to them, I’ll be getting a whole new crop—the kids nobody else wants! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Especially instructive are cases in which a single wild plant species was variously selected for different purposes and thereby gave rise to quite different-looking crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Of what is this fine crop to consist, ma’am?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Each group kept to itself, spoke its own language, and grew its own special crops. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The donkey hobbled away placidly on three legs, to crop the ferns at the edge of the road. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Later, when the crops are high, farmworkers use propane torches to burn the weeds by hand. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z A hundred oarsmen and sailors went down with Lord Steffon Baratheon and his lady wife, and for days thereafter every tide left a fresh crop of swollen corpses on the strand below Storm's End. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I can feel the rough sleeve of that cropped green suit, like an emblem of the green boy wearing it. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z There had been a grand theatrical season and a whole crop of great young light heavyweights. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z In contrast, most ancient Southwest Asian crops exhibit just one of the alternative wild variants or alternative transforming mutations, suggesting that all modern varieties of that particular crop stem from only a single domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Besides cotton, the new land went to potatoes and root crops for us and some more corn to feed livestock and ourselves. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The economies of states and countries that depend on honeybee-pollinated crops collapse shortly after the hives. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “That explains why you threatened him with your riding crop,” Wilem said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But other crops and domestic animals failed to spread between Mesoamerica and South America. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The ants who had filled their crops to the brim were walking back to the inner fortress, to be replaced by a procession of empty ants who were coming from the same direction. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It cropped up every time he had a glass of beer. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z There were also great differences in the completeness with which suites of crops and livestock spread, again implying stronger or weaker barriers to their spreading. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Although rice was the most important Yayoi crop, 27 other crops new to Japan plus unquestionably domesticated pigs were grown as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In Egypt as well, food production began in the sixth millennium B.C. with the arrival of Southwest Asian crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They didn’t have enough of a crop left to cover seed money.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z As one moves along a north-south axis, one traverses zones differing greatly in climate, habitat, rainfall, day length, and diseases of crops and livestock. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s also clear that Native Americans of the eastern United States were not overlooking potential major crops among the wild species around them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There followed a description of this year’s turnip crop that would have put a Tasmanian devil to sleep. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z In fact, the earliest identified crops were two drought-resistant species of millet in North China, but rice in South China, suggesting the possibility of separate northern and southern centers of plant domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In contrast, the wild ancestors of most Southwest Asian crops and animals were absent from western Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There are crops, animals grazing on the slopes, workers in distant fields. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z A few years before I was born he had settled the family on a twenty-two-acre farm near Watsonville, California, raising apples, strawberries, and a few vegetable crops. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Those crops prove to be ones like West African yams, oil palm, and kola nut—plants that were already believed on botanical and other evidence to be native to West Africa and first domesticated there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Then he mingled with the townspeople and asked them many questions, about their crops, their harvests, the life they led. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z That provides part of the explanation why many crop plants have much bigger fruits than their wild ancestors do. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The repeated pattern doubtless has to do with geography—southeastern climate and soil favor plantation crops like tobacco and cotton. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Thus, the linguistic evidence suggests that many tropical crops were added to the Austronesian repertoire after the emigration from Taiwan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Southwest gradually became farmers by acquiring Mexican crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He lifts the paper bag dress to reveal a low cut crop top and olive green shorts so tiny they could be underwear. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z There is a bumper crop this year, and the drought has made them more aggressive. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Then farmers can charge more for their crops. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The nitrogen and phosphorus levels are so high that it would kill the crops. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The lower slopes of the mountain are washed with gentle rains, and the air remains cool and fresh all year, and the volcanic soil produces rich crops of com. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She feels like the alien landing her UFO in the crops. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z One such hybrid among Fertile Crescent selfers, bread wheat, became the most valuable crop in the modern world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They needed and developed varied tools for growing their crops, fighting, and making art. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It must plant one or two crop varieties that ripen at the same time. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Then it was even easier to harvest his crop. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Off of 1-64 and back on the turnpike, the signs for Capitol Street started cropping up again. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z That’s the way farmers had always gotten their seed—they just kept some of their crop to be planted for the next season. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z We were in her garden, planting more corn and beans that would continue to bear after the crops we’d planted in May were done. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z “Please,” I said as I exhaled, “please, will you bring the rains to the people? Will you make the crops grow so the people can be whole and healthy again?” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z You could plant seeds in mud and grow a crop to feed your children. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “So after the fall crop come in, my daddy he sold his plowin’ steer and his piece a-land, and we caught the train to Cold Sassy.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z A next stage of crop development included the first fruit and nut trees, domesticated around 4000 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I told of the war-like births witnessed by Jason and by Cadmus, the one crop of souls arriving at truce, the other so involved in its savagery that none was left alive. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Then if you kept asking: “But is it a bumper crop?” they’d sooner or later smile and say: “Oh, I’d say so, sweetheart. A real bumper crop,” bringing a thrilled cheer. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z We began to talk about babies and crops and tricks for keeping bedbugs out of our beds. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “But dragon, they do good thing, too. Bring rain for crops. They king among all. . . all reptile. They emperor of all animal.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The language was generally Shona, but smatterings of other tongues cropped up when people became excited. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They could raise livestock and crops, using what they needed and selling the surplus. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z That is, what arrived to launch food production in Egypt was foreign crops and animals, not foreign peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Of Roman crops, only oats and poppies were native to Italy. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z People have speculated on how to make crop soil out of Martian dirt for decades. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Hadn’t Grandfather been overly concerned about the crop this year? Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His skin was dark and wrinkled, his cropped hair nearly white. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I was pretty sure I knew everything about Constantine—she had one sister and grew up on a share- cropping farm in Corinth, Mississippi. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z It was only within the last 11,000 years that some peoples turned to what is termed food production: that is, domesticating wild animals and plants and eating the resulting livestock and crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Mohamed mostly remembered the lack of school materials in our primary and secondary schools, and how we had to help the teachers grow crops in their farms or gardens. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z But even more impressive were the number of crops they grew: cassava, sugar cane, yams.... A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z These had been grown elsewhere, because few crops could be raised in the dry semi- desert region of Loun-Ariik. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z On the fringes of the crowd a tall woman with short cropped hair, a black lace dress, and black open-toed shoes leaned against a beam that had been painted yellow. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z One writer has estimated that Indians developed three-fifths of the crops now in cultivation, most of them in Mesoamerica. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She runs her fingers through her cropped hair. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z For instance, climate changes at the end of the Pleistocene in the Fertile Crescent greatly expanded the area of habitats with wild cereals, of which huge crops could be harvested in a short time. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There were some kind of crops being grown in between the trees, half of it now burned out or uprooted by the shelling. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I had been told that the crop is harvested by Canucks from Canada who flood over the border at harvest time. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z But to the south lay 2,000 miles of country thinly occupied by Khoisan hunter-gatherers, lacking iron and crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Lest these conclusions be misinterpreted, we should end this chapter with caveats against exaggerating two points: peoples’ readiness to accept better crops and livestock, and the constraints imposed by locally available wild plants and animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They had added more stock and a few more acres to crops. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z What a remarkable thought, that anything could have cropped grass here. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Mexican crops finally began to reach the eastern United States by trade routes after A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Her felt her crop, the upper portion of the gullet where the food first lodges after swallowing. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z One day, as I led a group of tourists through the church, I noticed a healthy crop of mushrooms growing out of the once-beautiful red carpet near the pulpit. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z To bring up all those differences isn’t to claim that widely distributed crops are admirable, or that they testify to the superior ingenuity of early Eurasian farmers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z My father told my mom that Bijan was a great Persian knight tasked with helping farmers whose crops were being attacked by wild boars. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Hence, crops and animals domesticated or acquired in one part of Africa had great difficulty in moving to other parts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z With the crop surpluses that they could grow and store, they fed craft specialists, chiefs, and part-time soldiers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Inhabitants of those islands developed intensive dryland agriculture requiring a heavy input of labor to build terraces, carry out mulching, rotate crops, reduce or eliminate fallow periods, and maintain tree plantations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For teosinte to become a useful crop, it had to undergo drastic changes in its reproductive biology, to increase greatly its investment in seeds, and to lose those rock-like coverings of its seeds. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We were not trying for a real wheat crop, but only a harvest of seeds, and it would surely produce that, at least. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z She brought the crop down with a crack on the edge of the table. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z It turns out that the earliest Fertile Crescent crops, such as the wheat and barley and peas domesticated around 10,000 years ago, arose from wild ancestors offering many advantages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The new government was unable to cope with its country’s needs, and failed crops resulted in a horrific famine that lasted into 1922 and killed millions. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I watch as the people feast on the plentiful crops and go to sleep at night with full bellies and minds free of worry. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z I signed my card, underlining the words “conditioned on crop” in the lower left-hand corner. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “They destroy crops and food supplies. They kill trees by gnawing around the bark. Mice can be destroyed by traps, poison, and cats.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Tortoise said nothing about the failure of Snail’s crop, although in private he was laughing. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z The Balkans provided ideal growing conditions for most Mesopotamian crops and livestock, and received those domesticates as a package within 2,000 years of its assembly in the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In that interval of nearly two years, successive crops of plankton had flowered and faded away, but the poison, although no longer present in the water, had somehow passed from generation to generation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “If we are to stay alive,” I said, “there is work that has to be done. There are the crops and the seeds, the garden, the animals.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z She is about my mother’s age, with wavy brown hair cropped close to her head and plain, strong features. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Rather, the lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than to crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Conversely, Eurasian crops that were first domesticated far from the Fertile Crescent but at the same latitudes were able to diffuse back to the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The productivity and relative importance of those crop types varied considerably on different islands, depending on their environments. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Apparently, even in this time, planters practiced some form of crop rotation. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z In 2003, a study by University of California, Davis, researchers studied two crops of corn, strawberries, and blackberries. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The clothing fit and was of better quality than anything he had ever owned, but it was not what one wore to harvest crops. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z I tugged on the ends of my newly cropped hair. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Next to me Katherine whispers, “Sit down, Jane!” while a few of the ladies in the gallery exclaim over the rudeness of this new crop of Negroes. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The worst bore down upon the Irish in the 1840s, when the potato crop, their food of life, rotted in the ground for four years running, and landlords heartlessly threw their tenants into the streets. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Even if Fertile Crescent crops adapted to winter rain could somehow have crossed the Sahara, they would have been difficult to grow in the summer-rain Sahel zone. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Finally, speakers of ancestral Afroasiatic languages may have been involved in domesticating the crops native to Ethiopia, and they certainly introduced Fertile Crescent crops to North Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Now and then they would almost step into it, and quickly pull away, back into crops and local gossip and politics and health. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In the Pearl River Delta, the rice farmer planted two and sometimes three crops a year. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Still we plant and harvest while the trucks come and go with our crops in order to continue the war. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the talk was ordinary, about the state of the crops or the weather, but often it centered on Khan Sahib, our village's powerful landlord. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z His close- cropped beard lay like a shadow over his hollow cheeks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Suppose that North American wild apples really would have evolved into a terrific crop if only Indian hunter-gatherers had settled down and cultivated them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Because the river has so much agricultural runoff, there were crops, too: Little tomato and soybean plants sprang up everywhere, well fertilized by all the sewage. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z On an industrial farm, the trees would have been thought of as a waste of valuable crop land. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Claiborne handlers had been so dismayed with the colt that they had hidden him in a back barn when Phipps came to look over her new crop of horses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But most wild animal and plant species have proved unsuitable for domestication: food production has been based on relatively few species of livestock and crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They also cropped up frequently in the spies’ messages, creating a pattern for Elizebeth to spot. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z For 2,000 years those founder crops served only as minor dietary supplements while eastern U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As if the blight was our fault and we wanted the crops to rot in the fields and had planned all along not to pay the rent to the lord of our cottage. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z By 1652, the year the Dutch arrived at Cape Town with their winter-rain crops of Near Eastern origin, the Xhosa had still not spread beyond the Fish River. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z However, when we find evidence that the same wild ancestor was domesticated independently in different areas, we infer that the crop spread too slowly to preempt its domestication elsewhere. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But the “children” of that crop will be mixed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The crops in the Eastern Agricultural Complex could not readily make up the difference. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Which ones did they actually cultivate, and how did the resulting local crop package compare with the Fertile Crescent’s founder package? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z His silvery-gray hair was cropped close to his skull, and icy-blue eyes watched each student enter and take a seat. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Wheat, milo seed, certified grass seed—these were the crops the farm’s prosperity depended upon. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z With insects that infest crops the story is the same. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The globe is full of places where it is much easier to raise animals than crops. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Most New World fields thus came to be mixed gardens of many crops planted together, rather than monoculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The crops were brought in and stored, and in the fields the birds picked at the strewn leavings. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I was alone, in a daze, following a muscular, stocky white woman with closely cropped straight black hair. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But Lysenko convinced himself and his Soviet bosses that he had “retrained” the crops through exposure and conditioning alone and thereby altered their inherent characteristics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z For example, the Mediterranean crops that became Egypt’s staples require winter rains and seasonal variation in day length for their germination. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The people and the baboons would work together, all of them helping with the ploughing of the fields and the harvesting of the crops. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z “Outside our walls, the Yunkai’i devoured our crops and slaughtered our herds,” the cobbler went on. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Nor have they used it for growing crops. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Now and then her name cropped up in their Arabic like a little window. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z They later allowed residents to return to Gnadenhütten to harvest their crops. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z She’s the captain of the varsity basketball team and wears her hair cropped short. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z My hair cropped short like Minerva’s was that last year, held back by bobby pins. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The reasoning is straightforward for movements of crops and livestock, which depend strongly on climate and hence on latitude. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They are perfectly capable of recognizing useful additions to their crop larder, as is shown by their exuberant adoption of the sweet potato when it arrived. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We’ve laid up a two-year food supply, so that even if we don’t succeed in growing a good crop the first year, we won’t go hungry. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z They tended livestock and harvested hay, grain crops, and potatoes. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Joseph had cropped the Polaroids to fit in some frames he’d found. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z They moved up the steep hills on either side of the new lake to rebuild their homes and replant their crops. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I did finish the sluice but stopped working on the wheel because Alice and I had to gather the nut crop. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When he got home, Mama would need to tell him that the debils had left us with no crop to sell, no rice to eat, and no seed for next year’s planting. 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