High Country

High country may refer to:

  • High country (New Zealand)
  • "High Country", a nickname for parts of western North Carolina in the United States
  • "High Country", a nickname for the Colorado Plateau, including the towns of Flagstaff, Sedona, Page, and Payson in northern Arizona
  • "High country", a region northeast of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia

Famous quotes containing the words high and/or country:

    “Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.”
    —Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)

    “I find that the respectable man, so called, has immediately drifted from his position, and despairs of his country, when his country has more reason to despair of him. He forthwith adopts one of the candidates ... as the only available one, thus proving that he is himself available for any purposes of the demagogue. His vote is of no more worth than that of any unprincipled foreigner or hireling native, who may have been bought.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)