I want us to know our world. If I lived in North Georgia…

“mountain laurel that would thrive in the”

— Andrea Wulf

“Once, aeons ago, the Appalachians were of a scale and majesty to rival the Himalayas—piercing, snow-peaked, pushing breathtakingly through the clouds to heights of…

— Bill Bryson

“The way the truth of it hits you is less white-lighting whisky more the slow arrival of fall in a place that knows little…

— D.A. Lockhart

I can go on and on. In the Appalachians. I fed the poorest part of this nation for years coming up at Christmas.

— Paula White

Southward, two mighty ranges of the Appalachians shouldered their way into the blue distance like tremendous caravans marching across eternity.

— Hervey Allen

Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Daniel Boone, who not only wrestled bears but tried to date their sisters, described corners of the southern Appalachians as “so wild and horrid…

— Bill Bryson

“Geologists think the mountains were formed by several distinct tectonic events over the course of 500 million years, a span of time that represents…

— Joel Achenbach

“Appalachia, an Indian name meaning “Endless Mountains”, is well suited to the land. The Appalachians are one of the oldest mountain ranges in the…

— Nancy Richmond

Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we lay, and…

— Richard Hovey

There was a lot of camaraderie among the bands. I remember a lot of times when I'd be driving up Laurel Canyon and pass…

— June Millington

The laurels of victory are at the point of the enemy bayonets. They must be plucked there; they must be carried by a hand-to-hand…

— Ferdinand Foch

I want to give the audience the whole package, and for me, the whole package is to give them something fresh as well. It's…

— Al Jarreau

Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry,…

— Edmund Spenser

Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much…

— Steven Pinker