Acres Quote by George Will

Sundance started with two acres back in 1963 that I bought from a sheepherder for $500. What has happened, I could see development starting…

— Robert Redford

“New Mexico is home to the first atomic bomb exploded on USA soil.”

— Steven Magee

The United States, a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, destroyed the last of its stocks of VX and other chemical agents on the…

— Barton Gellman

“Americans in 1950 rediscovered something that since Hiroshima they had forgotten: you may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it,…

— T. R. Fehrenbach

Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

— Rachel Boston

I grew up with a big backyard that led to the sand dunes of Lake Michigan.

— Borns

“Here the mountains were like the walls of a great jail which shut in the combatants. After Appomattox it was as though mortal enemies…

— Harry M. Caudill

“From 2000 to 2007 the United States developed close to four million acres of farmland, spending billions tilling it and filling it with fast,…

— Leigh Gallagher

“The exodus across the plains in the fifteen years before the Civil War, when more than 400,000 pioneers made the trek between the frontier…

— Rinker Buck

I grew up in northern Minnesota on 40 acres of wooded land 20 miles from the nearest town, and so the wilderness was home.…

— Cheryl Strayed

Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.

— Stewart Udall

“Then we left it behind and entered another world. Steep, densely forested slopes closed in around us, plunging us into shadow as the road…

— Simon Beckett