Broken Quote by Hugh Miller

I wander around, get the lay of the land and try to imagine what kind of people would have lived there in that historical…

— James Welch

The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his…

— Thomas Wolfe

Mountains have the power to call us into their realms and there, left forever, are our friends whose great souls were longing for the…

— Anatoli Boukreev

They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is…

— Ernest Hemingway

“The stress of farming had far-reaching consequences. It was the foundation of large-scale political and social systems. Sadly, the diligent peasants almost never achieved…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose…

— John Muir

“Not so very long ago, however, such self-governing peoples were the majority of humankind. Today, they are seen from the valley kingdoms as “our…

— James C. Scott

The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of…

— William H. Wharton

I miss that time. The cities back then, just after the forests died, were full of wonders, and you'd stumble on them--these princes of…

— Anonymous

When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to…

— Sitting Bull

“...Most peasants never traveled farther than twenty-five miles from the village of their birth. They had strong social ties to their communities, and could…

— Patricia D. Netzley

For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all the wealth…

— Plutarch