Plains Quotes

127 Plains quotes by 103 unique authors

You are worried about what man has done and is doing to this magical planet that God gave us. And I share your concern. What… — Ronald Reagan
Beautifully Bleak. I likened the hills encircling Canberra to the sea. They, like the sea, could be a sunny beguiling blue, or deep and inky.… — Hazel Hawke
The Order of the Arrow is a thing of the outdoors rather than the indoors. It was born in an island wilderness. It needs the… — E. Urner Goodman
That problem has been going on since men and women and their children moved from the plains and into caves. How many times have you… — Henry Winkler
Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts… — Gregory Bateson
It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they… — Charles Dickens
The wide stare stared itself out for one while; the Sun went down in a red, green, golden glory; the stars came out in the… — Charles Dickens
You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity to be a… — Hubert H. Humphrey
You see layers as you look down. you see clouds towering up. You see their shadows on the sunlit plains, and you see a ship's… — Joseph P. Allen
You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will be… — Leonardo da Vinci
Hold your hands out over the earth as over a flame. To all who love her, who open to her the doors of their veins,… — Henry Beston
MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman. — Ambrose Bierce
Feeling indisposed towards the evening, I drove up the ancient plains. The setting sun is unspeakably beautiful, Only it is approaching nightfall. — Li Shangyin
Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in the swift rapids… — Harvey Broome
May we attribute to the color of the herbage and plants, which no doubt clothe the plains of Mars, the characteristic hue of that planet,… — Camille Flammarion
The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the… — Luther Standing Bear
Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits;… — Philip James Bailey
A week ago it was the mountains I thought the most wonderful, and today it's the plains. I guess it's the feeling of bigness in… — Georgia O'Keeffe
Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears of… — Walter J. Phillips
Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the… — Hermann von Helmholtz
We have a right to expect that the best trained, the best educated men on the Pacific slope, the Rocky Mountains, and great plains States… — Theodore Roosevelt
Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs… — H P Lovecraft
All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on the sea or… — John Muir
Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity; but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and brawling brook are… — Theodore Roosevelt
Nowhere, not at sea, does a man feel more lonely than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains... — Theodore Roosevelt

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