Summer is when we believe, all of a sudden, that if we just walked out the back door and kept on going… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of… — Meriwether Lewis Copy Share Image
It is of great importance to our country generally, and especially to our navigating and whaling interests, that the Pacific Coast and,… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
Kitsch is the daily art of our time, as the vase or the hymn was for earlier generations. For the sensibility it… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My first show at MoMA in New York was pictures of new developments along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains. They… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
As early as I can remember, I wanted to be a snowplow driver. When you grow up in the Rocky Mountains, like… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a snowplow driver when I was a kid. Growing up in the Rocky Mountains, that's the most glorious… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
“The Tyrannosaurus rex was a creature of the jungle. She lived in the deepest forests and swamps of North America, not long… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“I was asleep when our plane hit the runway, but the jolt brought me instantly awake. I looked out the window and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“How- how did I get here?" "It would take another Earthling to explain it to you. Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Cultures of honor tend to take root in highlands and other marginally fertile areas, such as Sicily or the mountainous Basque regions… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Colorado and Wyoming are America’s highest states, averaging 6,800 feet and 6,700 feet above sea level. Utah comes in third at 6,100… — Keith Meldahl Copy Share Image
“I was still a boy when I left the Ozarks, only sixteen years old. Since that day, I’ve left my footprints in… — Wilson Rawls Copy Share Image
Early in the 1990s, I flew alone in a dandelion-yellow, single-engine, 180-horsepower Piper Cherokee from Westchester County Airport in New York westward… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
