North america Quote by Judith D. Schwartz

“a desert more vast than the continental United States”

— Thomas Sowell

“So far as the great Northwest is concerned there is no more "Great American Desert." The phrase has given place in modern geography to…

— Daniel W. Willard

“Drylands account for 41.3 percent of the world’s land-mass, including 44 percent of land under cultivation. Each year upward of twelve million hectares (thirty…

— Judith D. Schwartz

“Mountains complement desert as desert compliments city, as wilderness compliments and completes civilization.”

— Edward Abbey

“a land even more remote, America, which is farther than death.”

— Halldór Laxness

“Many of us have lived desert lives: very small on the surface, and enormous under the ground.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.

— Ezra Pound

Where on the globe can there be found an area of equal extent with that occupied by the bulk of our States, so fertile…

— Henry David Thoreau

“It is rugged, rustic country that lays claim to some of the most scenic and awe-inspiring sights in all of North America. While not…

— E.R. White Jr

Climate scientists have long pointed to the Southwest as one of the places in the U.S. that is most vulnerable to global warming impacts,…

— Jeff Goodell

For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America…

— Lin Biao