I'm gonna hunker down like a jack rabbit in a dust storm

Gather out of star-dust, Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, Storm-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust, Not for sale.

— Langston Hughes

“But the heat and the drought were in some ways the least of it. On May 9 a colossal dust storm had swung out…

— Daniel James Brown

“Do not be dust in the wind, but the wind that creates the dust storm.”

— E.W. Greenlee

“I glanced back at the dust storm raging outside and the one raging in my pants.”

— James Cox

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

— Hubert H Humphrey

“And sometimes a dust storm would stand off in the desert, towering so high it was like another city -- a terrifying new era…

— Denis Johnson

“There is a birch-rod kept behind the looking-glass in the schoolroom, and every now and then it is brought out and used, for no…

— Daniele Varè

Like a feather in a dust storm, with no direction The Raven flies through life, helpless and omitted Until night declares and the wind…

— Jessica Sorensen

These dust storms… Poor farmer spent a lifetime fixin' his farm and everything, goes out and looks down at it, and it's up above…

— Will Rogers

Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came…

— B. Wayne Hughes

“Of all the countries in the world, we Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people barbaric or civilized,"…

— Timothy Egan

I grew up in a family of peasants, and it was there that I saw the way that, for example, our wheat fields suffered…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

“Scientists now know, too, that huge dust storms like the ones that recently blanketed Arizona, northern China, Australia, and other arid areas are also…

— Linda Marsa

I wrote 'Millie's Cafe' driving out of Ft. Worth, Texas one time. I was in a dust storm in my old bus. Beer inside.…

— Fred Eaglesmith