Acquire Quote by Robert Redford

Once you leave Sundance suddenly you run into bulldozers and concrete and cranes, and all that heritage that the Mormon culture used to be…

— Robert Redford

“Brigham Young himself had sent my great-great-grandfather, William Jordan Flake, and others down from Utah to colonize the area. Legend has it that after…

— Jeff Flake

In 1847, two years before the greedy rush for gold began in California, the Mormons quietly began irrigating Utah's Salt Lake Valley. In a…

— Stuart Campbell

Utah today remains a battleground for land-use policies.

— Stewart Udall

In the early days of the Mormon Church, stewardship toward the land was a priority. It was a matter of survival in the desert.

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Truly landlocked people know they are. Know the occasional Bitter Creek or Powder River that runs through Wyoming; that the large tidy Salt Lake…

— Toni Morrison

“Under what circumstances does such outrage thrive? The territory of Utah, glorious as it may be, spiked by granite peaks and red jasper rocks,…

— David Ebershoff

In September 1942 the U.S. government purchased 58,575 acres of wilderness in eastern Tennessee. Soon there was a town, Oak Ridge, and amazing scientific…

— George Will

Nevada involved cattle, right? First of all, I thought the Lord owned the cattle on the thousand hills. What about the fact that even…

— Matt Shea

The broad rich acres of our agricultural plains have been long preserved by nature to become her untrammeled gift to a people civilized and…

— Grover Cleveland

I grew up in a town outside of Waco, Texas, and we had 30 acres.

— Jesse Plemons

We had about 400 acres, and I'm legitimately the true farm kid. We raised wheat, corn, soy beans. We hauled hay, cattle, hogs, horses.

— Sara Evans