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“a desert more vast than the continental United States”

— Thomas Sowell

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

— Anonymous

“The Northwest is essentially a national domain; it is fitting that it should be, as it is, not only by position but by feeling,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“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

The broad rich acres of our agricultural plains have been long preserved by nature to become her untrammeled gift to a people civilized and…

— Grover Cleveland

“Mountains complement desert as desert compliments city, as wilderness compliments and completes civilization.”

— Edward Abbey

“I thought about how we tilled and cultivated the land, planted trees on it, fenced it, built houses on it, and did everything we…

— Craig Johnson

“Many of us have lived desert lives: very small on the surface, and enormous under the ground.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

What man calls civilization always results in deserts.

— Don Marquis

There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the…

— Andre Maurois

For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.

— Alexander Smith