#prairie

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Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons.


Willa Cather


#prairie #trees #nature

As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of winestains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running.


Willa Cather


#nature #prairie #similies #nature

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.


George McGovern


#boy #dakota #good #grew #here

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.


Clive Anderson


#being #destroyed #ecology #growing #growing up

I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish for the prairie.


Rachel Dratch


#could #fantasy #i #i think #jewish

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.


Geronimo


#born #break #free #i #i was born

The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.


Carl Clinton Van Doren


#cooper #did #explorers #few #fiction

In TIME June 7, 2010 On the sustainability of the publishing industry, in the Chicago Tribune: "I think that book publishing is about to slide into the sea. We live in a literate time, and our children are writing up a storm, often combining letters and numbers.... The future of publishing: 18 million authors in America, each with an average of 14 readers, eight of whom are blood relatives. Average annual earnings: $175." - 5/26/10


Garrison Keillor


#writers-groups #home

I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.


Buffalo Bill


#far #feel #felt #fleet #gallant

One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.


David F. Houston


#any #argument #could #drive #fact