America Quote by Stephen Kinzer

“grasslands, grazing mammals, and pack-hunting predators evolved together. So if domestic herbivores can be managed such that their behavior mimics that of their wild…

— Judith D. Schwartz

“Compared to forest or aquatic ecosystems, grassland is unstable. It requires rather precise geological and climatic conditions, and if these conditions are not maintained--if…

— David Rains Wallace

We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie.

— Francis Parkman

“By what peculiar twist of perception, I wondered, had I managed to see the plowed fields and second-growth forests of southern Wisconsin—a landscape of…

— William Cronon

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

As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.

— Ellsworth Huntington

“The change from the categories of hunter-gatherers to pastoralism to agriculture involved using a decreasing area of land, but an increasingly more intensive use…

— Romila Thapar

All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile…

— Anonymous

If we took 75% of the world’s trashed rangeland, we could restore it from agriculture back to functioning prairies — with their animal cohorts…

— Lierre Keith

“Swamps where cedars grow and turtles wait on logs but not for anything in particular; fields bordered by crooked fences broken by years of…

— E.B. White

I had never understood why the farmlands of the U.S. had been settled in such a sparse and isolated way, whereas the farming communities…

— Caterina Fake

We see evidence that lakes and forests and wetlands can have different equilibria - so you have a savanna system that may be stable…

— Johan Rockstrom