| The road twists through areca palms and banana plantations and rice paddies. |
| By 1986, more than 95 percent of the wild rice harvested was grown not in natural lakes but diked paddies, most of them in northern California. |
| Three-quarters of the land is covered with forests and woodland, and much of the land is cultivated with rice paddies. |
| Wild rice was the name because of the resemblance to rice paddies and because it was just growing wild in the wilderness. |
| The luminous, newly sprouted grass fields reminded her of the paddies of tender rice shoots covering the lowland Kampuchean countryside. |
| Most of the route stretches through rolling green hills and intervening rice paddies underlain with rich red lateritic soils. |
