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> [Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in the swift rapids of its rivers, on the limitless reaches of its western plains, in the silent vastness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harvey-broome/britain-won-its-wars-on-the-playing-fields-of-eton-america-developed/)

[Harvey Broome](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harvey-broome/)

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## More by Harvey Broome

> [If we lose wilderness, we lose forever the knowledge of what the world was.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harvey-broome/if-we-lose-wilderness-we-lose-forever-the-knowledge-of-what-the-world/)

[Harvey Broome](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harvey-broome/)

> [Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harvey-broome/without-wilderness-we-will-eventually-lose-the-capacity-to-understand/)

[Harvey Broome](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harvey-broome/)

> [These are islands in time - with nothing to date them on the calendar of mankind. In these areas it is as though a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harvey-broome/these-are-islands-in-time-with-nothing-to-date-them-on-the-calendar/)

[Harvey Broome](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harvey-broome/)

> [Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America. Our drive, our ruggedness, our unquenchable optimism and zeal and elan go back…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harvey-broome/without-wilderness-we-will-eventually-lose-the-capacity-to-understand-2/)

[Harvey Broome](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harvey-broome/)

> [Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in the swift…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harvey-broome/britain-won-its-wars-on-the-playing-fields-of-eton-america-developed/)

[Harvey Broome](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harvey-broome/)

> [The sovereign quality of wilderness is the same wherever encountered… Each manifestation has an unshackled quality-each stirs untapped longings-each gives a fillip to living-each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harvey-broome/the-sovereign-quality-of-wilderness-is-the-same-wherever-encountered/)

[Harvey Broome](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harvey-broome/)

> [Man has created some lovely dwellings, some soul-stirring literature. He has done much to alleviate physical pain. But he has not ... created a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harvey-broome/man-has-created-some-lovely-dwellings-some-soul-stirring-literature/)

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> [And thus flowed the current of life. The seeds of the silverbell were converted into squirrel; and squirrels were converted into foxes. Everything edible,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harvey-broome/and-thus-flowed-the-current-of-life-the-seeds-of-the-silverbell-were/)

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