Interior Plains

The Interior Plains is a vast physiographic region that spreads across the Laurentian craton of central North America.

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Famous quotes containing the words interior and/or plains:

    “Though the railroad and the telegraph have been established on the shores of Maine, the Indian still looks out from her interior mountains over all these to the sea.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “When I say artist I don’t mean in the narrow sense of the word—but the man who is building things—creating molding the earth—whether it be the plains of the west—or the iron ore of Penn. It’s all a big game of construction—some with a brush—some with a shovel—some choose a pen.”
    —Jackson Pollock (1912–1956)