High Plains

High Plains refers to one of two distinct land regions:

  • High Plains (United States), land region of the western Great Plains
  • High Plains (Australia), land region adjacent to the Great Dividing Range

Famous quotes containing the words high and/or plains:

    “This insight, which expresses itself by what is called Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuit of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The Plains are not forgiving. Anything that is shallow—the easy optimism of a homesteader; the false hope that denies geography, climate, history; the tree whose roots don’t reach ground water—will dry up and blow away.”
    —Kathleen Norris (b. 1947)