Prairie Quotes
The rising cost of prescription drugs has sparked a prairie fire that is spreading across our nation.
Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect.
A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
If you take away all the prairie dogs, there will be no one to cry for the rain.
As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.
A luxury meal was prairie sandwiches - two slices of bread with wide-open spaces between them.
They are fruit and transport: ripening melons, prairie schooners journeying under full sail.
We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.
Dream Song: As my eyes Search the prairie, I feel the summer in the spring. Whenever I pause The noise Of the village.
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.
Don't ask me about emotions in the Welsh dressing room. I'm someone who cries when he watches Little House on the Prairie.
A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians.
Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore.
When I heard you could get a disease from playing with your prairie dog, I thought, 'Wow, what a euphemism.' I thought playing with my prairie dog was the best way to avoid diseases.
I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.
There was something about the prairie for me—it wasn’t where I had come from, but when I moved there it just took me in and I knew I couldn’t ever stop living under that big sky.
I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy. But, I think I look too jewish for the prairie.
That signal's come and gone a lot in my life-time, that prairie progressivism died . I think prairie progressivism is still there. Every once in a while, odd things take place.
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.
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.
The four horsemen of the prairie are tornado, locust, drought, and fire, and the greatest of these is fire, a rider with two faces because for everything taken, it makes a return in equal measure.
An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year - which is far more than the value of the land's crop of corn or wheat.
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.
Samuel finally understood the sound of the wind after all these years: The winds were a chorus of the prairie’s ever-present heartaches.
The prairie skies can always make you see more than what you believe.
Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons.
One day in the woods he met an Indian. They stood in the wet, cold woods and looked at each other, and they could not talk because they did not know each other's words.
One day in the woods he met an Indian. They stood in the wet, cold woods and looked at each other, and they could not talk because they did not know each other's words
The snug log house looked just as it always had. It did not seem to know they were going away.
There was no time to lose, no time to waste in rest or play. The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime.