36 Prairie Quotes for You to Enjoy

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. Emily Dickinson

Alone Nature Will Few Takes Make Prairie Bee Bees Clover

As a child, I spent a lot of time wandering around the prairies and in the hills, and there was a sense that it was such a wide-open space, and there was kind of a feeling of potential. I could imagine anything happening there. Arthur Slade

Time Space Feeling Sense Spent Kind Potential Could Hills Around Prairie Lot Child Wandering Anything Happening Imagine

I listen to NPR when I listen to the radio, but I don't listen to the radio that much. You know, I listen to Garrison Keillor, I listen to 'Prairie Home Companion.' Al Franken

Home You Know Prairie Listen Much Radio Companion

The valley we lived in could easily be the setting for a fantasy novel or a prairie western novel. It could be anything. Arthur Slade

Setting Valley Easily Could Prairie Western Anything Fantasy Novel Lived

First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it. Bill Kurtis

Good First Edge Big Everyone Feel Town First Of All Built Prairie Cow Chicago Friendly Very Just Being Midwestern Kansas Basically

The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers. Carl Clinton Van Doren

For my 9th birthday, my only wish was to eat like a farmer boy. I had devoured 'The Little House on the Prairie' book series and wanted to be like Almanzo Wilder, the protagonist of 'Farmer Boy,' one of the later installments in the 'Little House' series. Charles Best

Birthday Book Wish Wilder Later Eat Only Had Like Protagonist House Devoured Boy Prairie Wanted Little Farmer Series

It was always a fantasy of mine growing up - my favorite program was always 'Little House on the Prairie' - so I always wanted to wear those looks. When I was a child, I wouldn't let my mom put me in anything but calico dresses and now... whaddaya know, every day I'm in a calico dress, basically, so it's kind of funny. Chloe Sevigny

Funny Day Mom Me Every Day Every Mine Those Favorite Kind Wear Dress Dresses Put Know House Looks Always Prairie Up Child Wanted Anything Little Fantasy Growing Growing Up Now Basically Program

For me, when I 'discover' a story, there is a feeling of buoyancy and clarity, perhaps similar to early morning out on a prairie highway, when darkness lifts and reveals the outline of farmhouses and copses of trees in the distance. David Bergen

Morning Me Darkness Feeling Trees Distance Out Clarity Similar Outline Lifts Highway Perhaps Reveals Prairie Discover Story Early Early Morning

I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization. George Catlin

Men Past Approach Melting Civilization Noble Red Over Boundless Contemplated Prairie Spread Years Forests Races Who Many Now Away

A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally. George Mercer Dawson

Hockey historians say the handshake dates to English settlers in Canada, who preached an upper-class version of sportsmanship in the 19th century. Soon, tough kids in urban and prairie rinks began imitating imagined dukes and earls of the old country. George Vecsey

Old Tough Country Imitating Settlers Say Kids Dates Soon Sportsmanship Prairie Historians Preached Version Began Canada Handshake Upper-Class Hockey Old Country Urban Century English Who Imagined

My father had owned a ranch when he was younger, in Montana, and he remembered riding his horse across the prairie and seeing some large bones sticking out of the ground. He was enough of a geologist, being a sand and gravel man, to have a pretty good notion that they were dinosaur bones. Jack Horner

Good Man Father Enough Montana Ranch Out Dinosaur Seeing Some Pretty Pretty Good Horse Had He Remembered Sticking Prairie Geologist Were His Owned Being Sand Younger Across Notion Ground Large Riding Gravel Bones

Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than 'open form' or free verse is a prairie where a man can do all kinds of manly things in a state of wholesome unrestrictedness. James Fenton

Man Free Manly State Mad Kinds Restraining More Open Free Verse Device Prairie Verse Than Any Where Form Wholesome Things

I'm a fan of very, very expensive creams: Creme de la Mer, La Prairie Skin Caviar Luxe. I'm a huge fan. They work. Jerry Hall

Work Skin Prairie Caviar La Huge Very Huge Fan Expensive Fan

High Alpine meadows, like their near relatives prairie, desert and certain varieties of wetland, teach us to consider the world from a fresh perspective, to open our eyes and take account of what we have missed, reminding us that, in spite of our emphasis on the visual in everyday speech, we see so very little of the world. John Burnside

Eyes World Perspective Relatives Everyday Consider Our High Visual See Spite Take Open Emphasis Reminding Missed Like Fresh Prairie Very Account Meadows Little Us Certain Teach Desert Near Speech

I know that the only reason American landscapes sometimes disappoint me is that, just a century before I was born, the great rivers and prairies and wild forests still existed. And they were sublime. John Burnside

'Sesame Street' early on and then 'Little House on the Prairie' was a big deal in our house. I always identified with 'Little House' because they were wanderers, and there was something about being an immigrant. John Cho

Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state has an inexhaustible supply of wind power. The potential here to create jobs and draw millions of dollars in new investment to North Dakota is enormous. Kent Conrad

Wind Power Enormous State Our Draw Jobs Potential Investment Supply New Force Knows Felt Prairie Inexhaustible Dollars North North Dakota Stood Anybody Create Who Dakota Here Millions Millions Of Dollars

I'm married to a Canadianm so I have a lot of fond thoughts about Canada. I think about the prairies of Manitoba, where my wife is from, and I have a lot of friends and relatives on both coasts and have spent a lot time in Canada from Nova Scotia to B.C. In some ways, it's a much more sane country than the U.S. Lee Ranaldo

Time Thoughts Wife Relatives Country Think Spent Ways Married Some About Fond More Both Prairie Lot Friends Than Canada Where Much Sane Nova Nova Scotia

Most of the female 'superhero' role models of my childhood came from novels, and they rarely had powers. Take Dorothy, for example, from 'The Wizard of Oz;' or Laura Ingalls and her sisters in the 'Little House on the Prairie' novels. Marjorie Liu

Example Laura Rarely Superhero Take Had For Example Most House Powers Female Prairie Wizard Wizard Of Oz Came Role Sisters Role Models Models Childhood Oz Dorothy Little Novels Her

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