“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
'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
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
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
Answered prayers cover the field of providential history as flowers cover western prairies. — Theodore L. Cuyler 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
Rattlesnakes are only too plentiful everywhere; along the river bottoms, in the broken, hilly ground, and on the prairies and the great… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Class consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite--the delusion that class barriers are not real.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Participation in the dance was entirely voluntary, a mental vow to worship the Mystery in this manner being expressed by a man… — Edward S. Curtis Copy Share Image
Texas was mostly short-grass and tall-grass prairie when modern Europeans arrived here. It really was a land of milk and honey. But… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“The bullets will not go toward you. The prairie is large and the bullets will not go toward you.” — Yellow Bird Copy Share Image
They are fruit and transport: ripening melons, prairie schooners journeying under full sail. — Kathleen Norris 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
If you take away all the prairie dogs, there will be no one to cry for the rain. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
East and Gulf Coast states are at risk of hurricanes; prairie and other central and southern states are constantly threatened by tornados;… — Matt Cartwright Copy Share Image
The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
Heaven knows what I have not been through with, since I saw you-dust, dirt, dyspepsia, hotels, railroads, prairies, tobacco juice. — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
I'd venture a bet that no American hates 'Prairie Home Companion' more than I do. — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Carl sat musing until the sun leaped above the prairie, and in the grass about him all the small creatures of day… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships; The varied and ample… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
My first paying gig was a play called 'The Voice of the Prairie' at a theater that no longer exists in Chicago… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
“After that hard winter, one could not get enough of the nimble air. Every morning I wakened with a fresh consciousness that… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
