Attwater Prairie Chicken

Famous quotes containing the words prairie and/or chicken:

“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,—”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

“Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn’t roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get a chance, because if you don’t want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain’t ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn’t want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)