American indian Quote by Luther Standing Bear

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

I lived a few miles outside of a tiny town in central Oklahoma. I would often run amok though the fields of wheat, the…

— Chelsea Manning

From afar, we know we have a great land, dominated by so many different forms of terrain, and we've got amazing and unique animals,…

— Aaron Pedersen

“The winding turns around capes, the unclouded sky, the flower mottled hills existed only as an aspect of waiting. Towns, civilization, meant the possibility…

— Thomm Quackenbush

The sky was different, without color, taut and unforgiving. But the water was the most unforgiving thing, nearly black at times, cold enough, I…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable,…

— Edward Abbey

It seems to us that no travelerhas ever explored them, and not with standing the wonders which science is else where revealing every day,…

— Henry David Thoreau

A week ago it was the mountains I thought the most wonderful, and today it's the plains. I guess it's the feeling of bigness…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

We were contented to let things remain as the Great Spirit Chief made them. They were not; and would change the rivers and mountains…

— Chief Joseph

Then it was intoxicating. The smooth takeoff, and the free feeling of having the world drop away. Soon after leaving the ground, they were…

— James Salter

“What was the human world like in the eyes of the mountains? Perhaps just something they saw on a leisurely afternoon. First, a few…

— Liu Cixin

God made the forests, the tiny stars, and the wild winds-and I think that he made them partly as a balance for that kind…

— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster