英语温馨夜读I PART2 14 Growing Good Corn 如何种好玉米

[00:00.43]Growing Good Corn 如何种好玉米 [00:06.55]There was a Nebraska farmer who grew award-winning corn. [00:12.13]Each year he entered his corn in the state fair where it won a blue ribbon. [00:18.25]One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him [00:22.52]and learned something interesting about how he grew it. [00:26.24]The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors. [00:31.81]“How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors [00:37.06]when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?” the reporter asked. [00:43.08]“Why sir,”said the farmer,“didn't you know? [00:47.13]The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. [00:53.47]If my neighbors grow inferior corn, [00:56.42]cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. [01:01.56]If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn.” [01:06.70]He is very much aware of the connectedness of life. [01:10.97]His corn cannot improve unless his neighbor's corn also improves. [01:16.55]So it is in other dimensions. [01:19.72]Those who choose to be at peace must help their neighbors to be at peace. [01:24.86]Those who choose to live well must help others to live well, [01:29.24]for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches. [01:33.61]And those who choose to be happy must help others to find happiness [01:38.64]for the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all. [01:43.01]The lesson for each of us is this:if we are to grow good corn, [01:49.14]we must help our neighbors grow good corn.

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