Environmental history Quote by Dan Flores

“In Conclusion, let us inquire what has been and what is to be the Meaning of the Great Plains in American Life”

— Anonymous

“For these lands, and, I say, especially the northern parts of America, suffered so terribly from the full force of the last days of…

— William Morris

“Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those?…

— A.E. Housman

Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must…

— Langston Hughes

“I used to walk out, at night, to the breakwater which divides the end of the harbor form the broad moor of the salt…

— Mark Doty

“I wanted to put my hand to an enormous paean which would unify my vision of America with words spilled out in the modern…

— Jack Kerouac

“Neither a land nor a people ever starts over clean. Country is compact of all its past disasters and strokes of luck–of flood and…

— John Graves

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

“How could we have discovered great lands, if we dare not travel?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Pale sky, white land; like somewhere past the end of the world”

— Rinsai Rossetti

“And always America is the place of the deathless and enraptured moments, the eye that looked, the mouth that smiled and vanished, and the…

— Thomas Wolfe

“The first thing to realize is that it is is a country that is still being imagined. Here every patch of earth has a…

— Daisy Goodwin