Beast Quote by Daniel Boone

My vision for Kentucky is a Commonwealth where there is so much economic opportunity, and our quality of life is so high, that people…

— Ernie Fletcher

“FROM THE OUTBREAK OF THE WAR, Abraham Lincoln recognized the pivotal role of Kentucky, a centrally located buffer state between North and South. “I…

— Ron Chernow

I have enjoyed the trees and scenery of Kentucky exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles and miles of beauty that have…

— John Muir

“Upstream, Arkansas and Ohio have their bottomlands, too, populated by a jaundiced and hungry-looking race, prone to fevers, whose eyes gleam at the sight…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Until they became the British Empire’s greatest voyagers, indeed its greatest export, settling in odd places all around the world. And for that splinter…

— James Webb

Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very…

— Barbara Kingsolver

As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.

— Willie Morris

“The idea of the frontier runs so deep in American culture that we internalize the idea that to find nature—real nature—you have to get…

— Christopher Brown

“The State government of Kentucky at that time was rebel in sentiment, but wanted to preserve an armed neutrality between the North and the…

— Ulysses S. Grant

I have enjoyed the trees & scenery of KY exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles & miles of beauty that have…

— John Muir

Men and women, inspired by faith in man's dignity, goaded by conviction in man's responsibility, labored that this land might be a better home…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.

— Billy Campbell