36 Prairie Quotes for You to Enjoy

East and Gulf Coast states are at risk of hurricanes; prairie and other central and southern states are constantly threatened by tornados; and western states commonly face damaging droughts. Extreme weather does not discriminate by American geography. Matt Cartwright

Face Weather Other Extreme States East Gulf Gulf Coast Hurricanes Constantly Threatened Risk Droughts Does Prairie Geography Western Discriminate Southern Southern States American Central Commonly Coast Damaging

I have bougainvillea and a magnolia tree outside my window. Not that anything will ever beat the view I had from my desk window in my little farmhouse in Nebraska. Just a dirt road stretching out as far as you could see, with prairie grass on either side. Meghan Daum

You Will Grass Tree Stretching Side Out See Window Dirt Could Beat Outside Had Road Prairie Just As Far As Anything Either Little Far View Ever Nebraska Desk

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies. Miriam Toews

Spent Small Town Prairie Years Canadian Middle

I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling of everybody knowing everybody else. I think the same thing is true of New York City, by the way. Nancy Pickard

Feeling Same Thing Live Think Everybody Everybody Else Else Way City True New Knowing Prairie Close York Same New York New York City Where Suburb Little Kansas Kansas City Village Thing

There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central Montana is that the combination of landscape and lifestyle is the most compelling I've seen on this earth. Small mountain ranges and open prairie, and different weather, different light, all within a 360-degree view. Sam Abell

Me Light Weather Seen Montana Earth About More Small Lifestyle Open Combination Most Within Prairie Cultures Sublime Mountain Different Central Grander Landscape Landscapes View Appeals Compelling

As a young girl, I saw commitment in my grandmother, who helped Grandpa homestead our farm on the Kansas prairie. Somehow they outlasted the Dust Bowl, the Depression, and the tornadoes that terrorize the Great Plains. Sheri L. Dew

Prairie grassland once covered much of North America's midsection. European settlers turned nearly all of it into farms and ranches, and today the prairie landscape survives mainly in isolated reserves. Stephen Kinzer

Today Settlers Once Mainly Isolated Prairie Covered North Survives America Turned Much Landscape Farms European Reserves Nearly

My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after. Tony Parsons

Me Generation Parents Before Gave Those Sacrifices House Make Prairie Nor Lot Up After Little Prepared Bring

The Amish like to live a very plain lifestyle, the way they think God intended. It sort of brings you back to, like, 'Little House on the Prairie' days or something. Verne Troyer

God You Live Think Back Way Something Lifestyle Days Like House Sort Prairie Very Intended Little Plain Amish Brings

My first paying gig was a play called 'The Voice of the Prairie' at a theater that no longer exists in Chicago called Wisdom Bridge. I played a fast-talking radio huckster - a salesman of crystal sets in the 1920s - and I actually won an award. Look at that! And then promptly didn't get hired for a year. Denis O'Hare

Wisdom First Year Sets Gig Promptly Voice Longer Look Crystal 1920s Prairie Hired Salesman Exists Chicago Won Get Theater Then Paying Radio Bridge Award Play Actually Played

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