#plains

Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of buffaloes made life much easier in many respects. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#almost #although #any #buffaloes #dry

The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#any #because #could #cultivation #draft

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#about #adjusts #change #complains #expects

The feeble soul merely whines and complains. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#feeble #merely #soul

Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#explains #fictional #itself #unlike

Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#because #brand #brands #cannot #customer

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. ↗

— Greg Egan

#caffeine #century #explains #lot #twentieth

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#changed #edge #experience #explains #how

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders. ↗

— Sloan Wilson

#almost #any #depends #does #drive

In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers. ↗