Prairie Quotes

• To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, -

  Emily Dickinson

  Bees, Pollination, Clovers

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.522, Harvard University Press

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• On the prairie one can see the colour of the air.

  Emily Murphy

  Air, Colour

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• There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore.

  Diane Ackerman

  Wind, White, Goes On

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• Nothing could be more lonely and nothing more beautiful than the view at nightfall across the prairies to these huge hill masses, when the lengthening shadows had at last merged into one and the faint after-glow of the red sunset filled the west.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Beautiful, Lonely, Sunset

  Theodore Roosevelt (1990). “Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter”, p.171, Stackpole Books

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  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

  Break Up, Freedom, Native American

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

  Emily Dickinson

  Tragedy, Literature, Bees

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.522, Harvard University Press

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• Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect.

  Francis Parkman

  Clouds, Light, Air

  Francis Parkman (2016). “The Oregon Trail: Juvenile History - - American”, p.29, VM eBooks

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• After the sunset on the prairie, there are only the stars

  Carl Sandburg

  Stars, Sunset

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.362, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Honesty, Good Life, Real

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane (1988). “A Little House sampler”, Univ of Nebraska Pr

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• As to scenery (giving my own thought and feeling), while I know the standard claim is that Yosemite, Niagara Falls, the Upper Yellowstone and the like afford the greatest natural shows, I am not so sure but the prairies and plains, while less stunning at first sight, last longer, fill the esthetic sense fuller, precede all the rest, and make North America's characteristic landscape.

  Walt Whitman

  Fall, America, Yellowstone

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Specimen Days & Collect”, p.150, Courier Corporation

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• There was something about the prairie for me—it wasn’t where I had come from, but when I moved there it just took me in and I knew I couldn’t ever stop living under that big sky.

  Pam Houston

  Sky, Bigs, Moved

  Pam Houston (1993). “Cowboys are My Weakness: Stories”

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• There was nothing so real on the prairie as winter, nothing so memorable.

  Martha Ostenso

  Real, Memorable, Winter

  Martha Ostenso (1927). “The Mad Carews”, New York : Dodd, Mead

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  It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Sweet, Real, Simple

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There was only - spring itself, the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere; in the sky, in the swift clouds, in the pale sunshine, and in the warm high wind - rising suddenly, sinking suddenly, impulsive ... If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring.

  Willa Cather

  Spring, Sunshine, Clouds

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.551, Simon and Schuster

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• Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.

  O. Henry

  Country, Enemy, Way

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.840, Delphi Classics

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• I'm not a preacher, and I'm certainly not a good example, but I have my own feelings about God. I'm kind of a nature guy. My cathedral is forests, or the prairies, or the beach.

  Neil Young

  Beach, Guy, Feelings

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• Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I'll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Happiness, Sympathy, Laughter

  "Fictional character: Reverend Robert Alden". TV Series "Little House on the Prairie" ("Remember Me: Part 1", 1975), www.imdb.com. 1974–1983.

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• The four horsemen of the prairie are tornado, locust, drought, and fire, and the greatest of these is fire, a rider with two faces because for everything taken, it makes a return in equal measure.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Taken, Fire, Two

  William Least Heat-Moon (2014). “PrairyErth: A Deep Map”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Each horizon, each place holds its own evolutionary power be it the prairie or the plateaus, the mountains or the marshes at Great Salt Lake. For me, this is the nature of peace. Our task is to learn how to see it, feel it, hear it, and care for these places as our own home ground.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Home, Lakes, Mountain

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse, was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which is induced by the flat spaces and wide horizons of the virgin prairie of western Canada.

  T. E. Hulme

  Space, Feelings, Desire

  T. E. Hulme, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.64, Psychology Press

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• If we took 75% of the world’s trashed rangeland, we could restore it from agriculture back to functioning prairies — with their animal cohorts — in under fifteen years. We could further sequester all of the carbon that has been released since the beginning of the industrial age. So I find that a hopeful thing because, frankly, we just have to get out of the way. Nature will do the work for us. This planet wants to be grassland and forest. It does not want to be an agricultural mono-crop.

  Lierre Keith

  Animal, Years, Agriculture

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• A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.

  Sitting Bull

  Native American, Wind, People

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• Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships; The varied and ample land,--the South And the North in the light--Ohio's shores, and flashing Missouri, And ever the far-spreading prairies, covered with grass and corn.

  Walt Whitman

  New York, Light, Ohio

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.534, NYU Press

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• Home is the nicest word there is.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Home, Little House On The Prairie

  "Fictional character: Laura Ingalls". TV Series "Little House on the Prairie" ("A Harvest of Friends", 1974), www.imdb.com. 1974–1983.

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• There's no great loss without some small gain.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Loss, Gains, Little House On The Prairie

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1971). “The first four years”

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