Lake Quote by Ron Currie 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 love Colorado. The mountains are so passionate. They just make me want to run to the top and yell obscene things to the…

— Jocelyn Davies

“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

“What a story it is. It is filled with suffering and hunger and cold and death. It is replete with accounts of freezing rivers…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“Under the rough and ridiculous circumstances of life in the Rocky Mountains there was something exciting and vital, full of rude poetry: the heartbeat…

— Wallace Stegner

“...the Northern Rockies region is a rapidly changing part of the United States. Ironically, in many areas today's number-one threat is not clear-cutting, overgrazing,…

— Michael McCoy

“Without love, mountains become unclimbable, seas uncrossable, deserts unbearable, and hardships our lot in life.”

— Gary Chapman

“One of these days I'm going to leave Nebraska, cut all those strings and ties and travel to the other prairies of this earth.…

— John Janovy Jr

“...Nebraska was white, a page as still as fallen snow. It was not crosshatched with roads, overrun with the hard lines of interstate systems.…

— Ann Patchett

Nebraska people have the heart and power to create real beauty and art if they will only wake up and do it.

— Gutzon Borglum

“Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those?…

— A.E. Housman

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity;…

— John Muir