Quote by Booth Tarkington

“Tourists.— They climb mountains like animals, stupid and sweating; one has forgotten to tell them that there are beautiful views on the way up.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Being in Indiana was harder than I had expected. As we spent time in the familiar community, we didn’t seem to fit in as…

— Ora-Jay Eash

When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much…

— Edward Ruscha

“A car whipped past, the driver eating and a passenger clicking a camera. Moving without going anywhere, taking a trip instead of making one.…

— William Least Heat-Moon

“In this he was like most Midwesterners. Directions are very important to them. They have an innate need to be oriented, even in their…

— Bill Bryson

“From remote and sparsely populated Vermont, Indiana seemed hopeless; a collection of turtle-shooting subliterates--people opposed to evolution, pluralism, and poetry. And yet. Those leaves.”

— Brian Kimberling

“Having been bred amongst mountains I am always unhappy when in a flat country. Whenever the skirts of the horizon come on a level…

— James Hogg

“Somewhere nere Ogallala, about six hours into that majestic, maddening prairie, I realize that half an hour has passed since I've seen a vehicle…

— Lily Burana

“A driver reaches a destination by driving on that road, not by laying back to enjoy the view.”

— Nabil N. Jamal

“I took several long walks in the Wright and adjacent Taylor Valleys. I did not feel insignificant on these journeys, dwarfed or shrugged off…

— Barry Lopez

“In this neighborhood of unreliable cars and steady, hopeful hearts. In this city known for its winters, in the middle of the plains, in…

— Caitlin Hamilton Summie

“Into no other city does the sight of the country enter so far; if you do not meet a butterfly, you shall certainly catch…

— Robert Louis Stevenson