American people Quote by James Buchanan

You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.

— Billy Sunday

Let the mountains talk, let the river run. Once more, and forever.

— David R. Brower

Do what we will, the Colorado will one day find an unimpeded way to the sea.

— Donald Worster

“The state of New York had just one important advantage—an opening to the west through the Appalachian Mountains, the chain that runs in rough…

— Bill Bryson

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out…

— Desmond Tutu

We took a straight course up the great snow ridge.

— Hudson Stuck

Those who believe they can move mountains, do!

— David J. Schwartz

“Men see God in the ripple, but not in miles of still water. Of all the two thousand miles that the St. Lawrence flows,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity;…

— John Muir

“...the Northern Rockies region is a rapidly changing part of the United States. Ironically, in many areas today's number-one threat is not clear-cutting, overgrazing,…

— Michael McCoy

The mountains are calling and I must go.

— John Muir

“To arrive in the Rocky Mountains by plane would be to see them in one kind of context,as pretty scenery. But to arrive after…

— Robert M. Pirsig