My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a tiny girl - in other words, only four… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
“These men flocked to the plains, and were rather stimulated than retarded by the danger of an Indian war. This was another… — William T. Sherman Copy Share Image
On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and… — Sam Ewing Copy Share Image
As a young girl, I saw commitment in my grandmother, who helped Grandpa homestead our farm on the Kansas prairie. Somehow they… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
What, ultimately, is Greece if it is not the people who live in this country? It's not the mountains and the plains. — Alexis Tsipras Copy Share Image
The government sends low-flying helicopters to chase the horses into corrals and then takes them from the plains of the American West… — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
My own great-grandfather suffered so much from asthma that he had to walk a mile or two behind the covered wagons crossing… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
I'm so thankful for my one year at regular high school in White Plains. — Jennifer Damiano Copy Share Image
There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place. — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
Nature did not gift us with a mighty Mekong like Thailand and Vietnam, with their vast and naturally fertile plains. Nature instead… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I saw a documentary on the Naadam festival that happens in Mongolia during the summer. One of the features of it is… — Caitriona Balfe Copy Share Image
“Hey. Please. This is not the Midwest. All right? Michigan is the Midwest, God knows why. This is the Plains: a state… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
In White Plains I wasn't theatrical at all. I was a model and I used to take the train into New York… — John Davidson Copy Share Image
I was born in Westchester, NY. I grew up around the Rye Brook area, and then I moved to White Plains with… — Jennifer Damiano Copy Share Image
The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers. — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
