Admire Quote by Steven Rinella

There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

— Ian Frazier

It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.

— Sinclair Lewis

Those who found nothing on the plains will find nothing on the summits of mountains!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another trail, it…

— Henry David Thoreau

“In Conclusion, let us inquire what has been and what is to be the Meaning of the Great Plains in American Life”

— Anonymous

Death and worse happened on the plains.

— Larry McMurtry

If you can imagine the one family continuously occupying the same land for 40,000 years or more, using it not just to sustain life…

— Tania Major

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.

— Ellsworth Huntington

Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower…

— Ellsworth Huntington

I'd like to be buried Indian-style, where they put you up on a high rack, above the ground. That way, you could get hit…

— Jack Handey

If I were an Indian...I would greatly prefer to cast my lot among those of my people who adhere to the free open plains,…

— George Armstrong Custer

It only makes sense to have the people managing hundreds of millions of acres of land located near that land and accessible to those…

— Lauren Boebert