Plains Culture

Famous quotes containing the words plains and/or culture:

“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)

“The highest end of government is the culture of men.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)