America Quote by James Henry Breasted

The most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wilderness.

— John Muir

Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so…

— Henry Miller

Cities can be places that represent the best of our ideals: where Americans of all different backgrounds can come together and, through their interactions,…

— Cory Booker

Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They…

— Leon Krier

I think the American landscape is a very special thing. There's a kind of complexity and solemnness within it.

— Taylor Russell

Your city is remarkable not only for its beauty. It is also, of all the cities in the United States, the one whose name,…

— Georges Pompidou

You either choose to view America as the shining city on the hill that inspires the best in all mankind, or you don't.

— Mike Pence

I know that the only reason American landscapes sometimes disappoint me is that, just a century before I was born, the great rivers and…

— John Burnside

“The first thing to realize is that it is is a country that is still being imagined. Here every patch of earth has a…

— Daisy Goodwin

“We have trains to hop, voyages to embark on, and rides to hitch. And then there’s the great American wild—vanishing but still there—ready to…

— Ken Ilgunas

There's an elegiac quality in watching [American wilderness] go, because it's our own myth, the American frontier, that's deteriorating before our eyes. I feel…

— Peter Matthiessen

“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