Nature Quote by John Janovy Jr

“ Nebraska is raw, primitive, ancient, other-worldly, spiritual, nihilistic, heartbreaking, horrifying and a whole bunch of other things that come to you like apparitions…

— David Burke

“I don’t want to own these prairies, or photograph them, or change them, or even stop or even keep going. We are just moving…

— Robert M. Pirsig

“You can never really escape. It goes with you, wherever you go. Somehow, the prairie dust gets in your blood, and it flows through…

— P.S. Baber

“ Nebraska will transcend Springsteen, will immortalise him as a writer, because of what it says about civilisation in the range of its complexity--the…

— David Burke

“I hope later she will see and feel a thing about these prairies I have given up talking to others about; a thing that…

— Robert M. Pirsig

So the Midwest nourishes us [...] and presents us with the spectacle of a land and a people completed and certain. And so we…

— Annie Dillard

Nebraskans know the true meaning of life... work, spending time with loved ones, and Saturdays in the fall.

— Jason Peter

“Writing has taught me that the frontier isn’t always a place. Sometimes it’s a season of your life. The space between who you were…

— Dustin Lee

“That's my Middle West - not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth,…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Sometimes there is no choice but to walk into your own house. Far away, you think, and you do not want to see. You…

— William Kittredge

“It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise…

— Myrlie Evers-Williams

“As a child I read hoping to learn everything, so I could be like my father. I hoped to combine my father's grasp of…

— Annie Dillard