Nature Quote by John Janovy Jr

“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

My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.

— Randy Bachman

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was…

— Geronimo

“Beautiful prairies, bordered by lofty hills sparsely scattered with timber, stretch around. The massive fronds of the Pinus Ponderosa replace the elegant leaflets of…

— Nancy Marguerite Anderson

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

Rattlesnakes are only too plentiful everywhere; along the river bottoms, in the broken, hilly ground, and on the prairies and the great desert wastes…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

— Clive Anderson

“The yard consisted of grass and a Russian Olive tree, which was about the only kind of tree able to survive on the high…

— Thomas King

“A crimson fire that vanquishes the stars;A pungent odor from the dusty sage;A sudden stirring of the huddled herds;A breaking of the distant table-landsThrough…

— Willa Cather

“By what peculiar twist of perception, I wondered, had I managed to see the plowed fields and second-growth forests of southern Wisconsin—a landscape of…

— William Cronon

“I slept that night in the room I used to have when I was a little boy, with the summer wind blowing in at…

— Willa Cather

“Calling a nuclear group with a mom and a pop and their kids a family is like calling a field of bluestem a prairie.…

— Faith A. Colburn