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It is a region of high plains and of mountains, having limited fertility but esteemed for natural beauty. Its — Robert A. Heinlein

Calm on the listening ear of night Come Heaven's melodious strains, Where wild Judea stretches far Her silver-mantled plains. — Edmund Sears

Elephants don't know anything about the world of ants; the peaks of mountains are oblivious of what is happening on the plains! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In this world with starry dome,Floored with gemlike plains and seas,Shall I never feel at home,Never wholly be at ease? — William Watson

I was born in Westchester, NY. I grew up around the Rye Brook area, and then I moved to White Plains with my family. — Jennifer Damiano

If I were a cassowary On the plains of Timbuctoo, I would eat a missionary, Cassock, band, and hymn-book too. — Samuel Wilberforce

Come, you drunken spirits. Come, you battalions. You fields of ghosts who walk these green plains still. Come, you giants! — Jez Butterworth

I, the fiery life of divine wisdom, I ignite the beauty of the plains, I sparkle the water, I burn in the sun, and the moon, and the stars. — Hildegard Of Bingen

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers. — Ellsworth Huntington

We aged a hundred years, and this happened in a single hour: the short summer had already died, the body of the ploughed plains smoked. — Anna Akhmatova

Sombre and rich, the skies;
Great glooms, and starry plains.
Gently the night wind sighs;
Else a vast silence reigns. — Lionel Johnson

Stock runnin' on the plains south of the Platte all the way — Louis L'Amour

In White Plains I wasn't theatrical at all. I was a model and I used to take the train into New York three days a week to do travelogue work. — John Davidson

Because I was born in the South, I'm a Southerner. If I had been born in the North, the West or the Central Plains, I would be just a human being. — Clyde Edgerton

There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place. — Ian Frazier

Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains. — Sam Walter Foss

The battle would not take place in the mountains, valleys, or plains of Israel. It would take place in the wilderness of the human heart. — Francine Rivers

The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call out there. — Truman Capote

MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman. — Ambrose Bierce

Ria snorted. Leo's pride rarely leaves the plains. What are they
supposed to mate? The zebras? — Lora Leigh

The spark from a tiny star can ignite the plains. — Mao Zedong

I am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honor and reputation. — Ben Jonson

Death and worse happened on the plains. — Larry McMurtry

I've been a dweller on the plains, have sighed when summer days were gone; No more I'll sigh; for winter here Hath gladsome gardens of his own. — Dorothy Wordsworth

Morning mists skulked over the river. — Jane Wilson-Howarth

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment. Rather, know the truth, and you will know its people. — Al-Ghazali

Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places. — Henry Beston

In the plains the grass grows tall, since there is no one to cut it. There is no one to water it either. — Vera Nazarian

I've lived out West some ... I've always liked the High Plains areas - eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska. — Charles Frazier

I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor. — Hugo Chavez

Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word. — Buffalo Bill

Do not fret, my brother, my child. For the buffalo will roam the plains once more. — P.J. Parker

Doth not a flight through illimitable plains of the ether of love inflame thy heart and compel thee to delight thyself in the Lord thy God? — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Twelve states in the Great Plains have a wind energy potential greater then the electric use of our entire nation. — Michael Pare

So think of the American Great Plains as one more reminder that we can find home again. — Dan Flores

The High Plains, the beginning of the desert West, often act as a crucible for those who inhabit them. — Kathleen Norris

Those who found nothing on the plains will find nothing on the summits of mountains! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril. — Lucretius

Can't tell if I've got rivers or veins running under my skin, flowing out over the plains. — Mariee Sioux

Mountains represent the power of nature; plains, the love of nature! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm so thankful for my one year at regular high school in White Plains. — Jennifer Damiano

I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. — Bill Bryson

When the spring comes, we will manure the plains of Kosova with the bones of Serbs, for we Albanians have suffered too much to forget. — Isa Boletini

The prairie skies can always make you see more
than what you believe. — Jackson Burnett

The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands. — Mary Wortley Montagu

What, ultimately, is Greece if it is not the people who live in this country? It's not the mountains and the plains. — Alexis Tsipras

Mud can make you prisoner and the plains can make you dry. Snow can burn your eyes but only people make you cry. — Alan Jay Lerner

In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers. — Charles Lyell

Nowhere, not at sea, does a man feel more lonely than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains ... — Theodore Roosevelt

Feeling indisposed towards the evening, I drove up the ancient plains. The setting sun is unspeakably beautiful, Only it is approaching nightfall. — Li Shangyin

Behold the Zebra on the plains, And shudder at his mighty manes! — Ogden Nash

Trees had been so common that it was a shock to ride out on the plains and discover that there was a part of earth where there weren't any. — Larry McMurtry

When you are bored of the plains, the secret passages to the mountains suddenly appear out of nowhere before you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Aomame imagined the carefree winds sweeping across the plains of Bohemia and thought about the vicissitudes of history. — Haruki Murakami

'Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere' took me six years to write. — Poe Ballantine

It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose. — Sinclair Lewis

Let others emulate the eagle's flight, Life in the lowly plains may be as bright. — Henrik Ibsen

Plains deceive you; they cause you to think that life is easy! Mountains never deceive you; they teach you the realties! Go to the mountains! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died. — Adlai E. Stevenson

Mountains are all right, I guess, because you can get on top of them and get a good view of the plains. — Thomas D. Isern

Voyaging great distances
through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains
is all about finding ourselves. — Tim Lebbon

We admire the cold peaks of the mountains but we live in the hot paradises of the plains! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In Conclusion, let us inquire what has been and what is to be the Meaning of the Great Plains in American Life — Walter P. Webb

It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before. — Kent Haruf

I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below. — Daniel Boone

I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains. — Buffalo Bill

Even more beautiful than the land that we passed, or the months spent camping on the plains, was learning to live with uncertainty. — Rinker Buck

She left my world spinning
like windmills
on the plains of la Mancha. — Stephen Brooke

On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died. — Sam Ewing

I've always been fascinated with the history of the Plains Indians and the history of the American Indian Movement in the '70s. — Jason Aaron