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:

    “Gifts of one loved me,—
    ‘T was high time they came;
    When he ceased to love me,
    Time they stopped for shame.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “We hold on to hopes for next year every year in western Dakota: hoping that droughts will end; hoping that our crops won’t be hailed out in the few rainstorms that come; hoping that it won’t be too windy on the day we harvest, blowing away five bushels an acre; hoping ... that if we get a fair crop, we’ll be able to get a fair price for it. Sometimes survival is the only blessing that the terrifying angel of the Plains bestows.”
    —Kathleen Norris (b. 1947)