“I hope later she will see and feel a thing about these prairies I have given up talking to others about; a… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I know that the only reason American landscapes sometimes disappoint me is that, just a century before I was born, the great… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to own these prairies, or photograph them, or change them, or even stop or even keep going. We are… — Robert M. Pirsig 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
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.… — Geronimo Copy Share Image
“By what peculiar twist of perception, I wondered, had I managed to see the plowed fields and second-growth forests of southern Wisconsin—a… — William Cronon Copy Share Image
“I slept that night in the room I used to have when I was a little boy, with the summer wind blowing… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“A crimson fire that vanquishes the stars;A pungent odor from the dusty sage;A sudden stirring of the huddled herds;A breaking of the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“The yard consisted of grass and a Russian Olive tree, which was about the only kind of tree able to survive on… — Thomas King Copy Share Image
“Calling a nuclear group with a mom and a pop and their kids a family is like calling a field of bluestem… — Faith A. Colburn Copy Share Image
“One of these days I'm going to leave Nebraska, cut all those strings and ties and travel to the other prairies of… — John Janovy Jr 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
“Beautiful prairies, bordered by lofty hills sparsely scattered with timber, stretch around. The massive fronds of the Pinus Ponderosa replace the elegant… — Nancy Marguerite Anderson Copy Share Image
