American life Quote by Anonymous

“We stood by and allowed what happened to the Great Plains a century ago, the destruction of one of the ecological wonders of the…

— Dan Flores

“O my America of the plains and the mountains and the valleys and the rivers and the canyons... It is with j’ust such patriotic…

— Philip roth

“So far as the great Northwest is concerned there is no more "Great American Desert." The phrase has given place in modern geography to…

— Daniel W. Willard

“We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills and the winding streams with tangled growth, as 'wild'. Only to…

— Paul Goble

“Mountains are all right, I guess, because you can get on top of them and get a good view of the plains.”

— Thomas D. Isern

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

“Custer wrote, “I often think I would greatly prefer to cast my lot among those of my people adhered to the free open plains…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

Plains deceive you; they cause you to think that life is easy! Mountains never deceive you; they teach you the realties! Go to the…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Death and worse happened on the plains.

— Larry McMurtry

“virtue of the American frontier and its allegedly salubrious”

— Eithne Luibhéid

We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as wild. Earth was beautiful…

— Luther Standing Bear

“For millennia, Native Americans have had a relationship with the land that encompasses respect and appreciation for all it provides.”

— Deborah Kesten