We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
The four horsemen of the prairie are tornado, locust, drought, and fire, and the greatest of these is fire, a rider with… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no… — George Mercer Dawson Copy Share Image
Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than 'open form' or free verse is a prairie where a… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any… — Carsten Jensen Copy Share Image
I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into… — Clive Anderson Copy Share Image
The Amish like to live a very plain lifestyle, the way they think God intended. It sort of brings you back to,… — Verne Troyer Copy Share Image
Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
'Mustanging' was like trout fishing. It is always the big ones that get away. When you did get a bunch of them… — Will C. Barnes Copy Share Image
The proud spirit of the original owners of these vast prairies inherited through centuries of fierce and bloody wars for their possession,… — L. Frank Baum 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
“The land belongs to the future, Carl; that's the way it seems to me. How many of the names on the county… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Without imagination---without creativity---without courage---the best prairie restorations don't happen. The rewards don't always come in our lifetime... . We work, knowing we… — Cindy Crosby Copy Share Image
About 4000 men, women and teenagers regularly venture out to play a game in -20 weather and stinging prairie winds. Bundled in… — Bob Cox Copy Share Image
Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Across the continent, on the shores of small tributaries, in the shadows of sacred mountains, on the vast expanse of the prairies,… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
“I love the prairie! So often I have seen the dawn come and the light flood over the land and everything turn… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Woods are not like other spaces. To begin with, they are cubic. Their trees surround you, loom over you, press in from… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“In the narrow thread of sod between the shaved banks and the toppling fences grow the relics of what once was Illinois… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
But there were moments when she played songs that made you wonder where she learned them, where indeed she came from. Harsh-tender… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither… — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
See yonder thin column of smoke curling up through the woods from some invisible farmhouse, the standard raised over some rural homestead…… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of the Sears and Roebuck catalog.… — Gene Autry Copy Share Image
A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Samuel finally understood the sound of the wind after all these years: The winds were a chorus of the prairie’s ever-present heartaches.” — Andrew Galasetti Copy Share Image
Radio was my lifeline as a kid growing up in Winnipeg in the 1950s. It connected me with the wider world outside… — Randy Bachman Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
When I heard you could get a disease from playing with your prairie dog, I thought, 'Wow, what a euphemism.' I thought… — Greg Giraldo Copy Share Image
I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
Casper Wyo., population 18,000 when I was born, was large enough to hold the surprises of civilization, but small enough that the… — Lynne Cheney Copy Share Image
“As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
My family life reads a bit like 'Little House on the Prairie.' I was big sister to Joan, Renee, and brother William,… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie. My dad was… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
I am a little thing, a tiny little thing on the vast prairies. I know nothing. My mouth is dirty. I cannot… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“It’s an immense night out there, wheeling and windy. The lights on the street and in the houses against the black wetness,… — Sinclair Ross Copy Share Image
I will remain what I am until I die, a hunter, and when there are no buffalo or other game I will… — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
The newcomers quickly learned their way about and soon felt at home. The Homestead Act of 1862 provided them, as well as… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state… — Kent Conrad Copy Share Image
