The Cactus Plain is a plain east of Parker, Arizona and the Parker Valley within the Lower Colorado River Valley.
The Cactus Plain is adjacent to the Bouse Wash on the south, which drains northwest-west into the Colorado River. The Cactus Plain contains the East Cactus Plain Wilderness, one of about 25 wilderness areas located in the Lower Colorado River Valley region south from Lake Mead and Hoover Dam.
Famous quotes containing the words cactus and/or plain:
“What do we want with this vast and worthless area, of this region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds, of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs; to what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts, or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable and covered to their very base with eternal snow? What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of 3,000 miles, rockbound, cheerless, uninviting and not a harbor in it?”
—For the State of Kansas, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
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starved, intense, the old
Christmas gifts saved up till spring,
and the old plain words,”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)