Admire Quote by Edward Dahlberg

“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 ferocious virtues that had been necessary for survival on the American frontier were theirs: they were men who lived freely, wastefully, independently, and…

— Wallace Stegner

“Thus even the most wretched individual breaths like a leaf in a verdant forest. His national identity supported him. A revered history receives him.…

— Anonymous

“His act was rather that of a harmless lunatic than an enemy. We were not so new to the country as not to know…

— Ambrose Bierce

“Wherever forests have not been mowed down, wherever the animal is recessed in their quiet protection, wherever the earth is not bereft of four-footed…

— Chief Luther Standing Bear

“Now when he walked in his fields and pastures and woodlands he was tramping into his mind the shape of the land, his thought…

— Wendell Berry

“I was a preacher, and now I am thirsting for vengeance,” answered Christy, his face clouding darkly. “Wait until you learn what frontier life…

— Zane Grey

“The rapacious white tribe who were arriving in increasing numbers, not only as convicts but also as settlers, wanted to own everything they touched.…

— Bryce Courtenay

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“Tolerance, and an open mind are practical necessities of the dreamer of today. Those who are afraid of new ideas are doomed before they…

— Napoleon Hill

“Now, however, Cooper’s romanticism was a receding memory, a newly muscular America replacing it with a post–Civil War vision of Manifest Destiny. The old…

— Bob Drury

Rooted in the mythology of all primitive races is the belief in a land of peace and happiness, a sort of earthly paradise, once…

— H. A. Guerber