The East Cactus Plain Wilderness is a 14,630-acre (59.2 km2) wilderness area on the Cactus Plain 10 miles (16 km) north of Bouse, Arizona. It is one of twenty-five wilderness areas located in the Lower Colorado River Valley region, south of Lake Mead-Hoover Dam. It is administered by the Bureau of Land Management.
Famous quotes containing the words east, cactus, plain and/or wilderness:
“I’m glad we’ve been bombed. It makes me feel I can look the East End in the face.”
—Elizabeth, Queen Mother (b. 1900)
“This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man’s hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
““It’s as plain as plain can be;
This woman shot her lover, it’s murder in the second degree,”
—Unknown. Frankie and Johnny (l. 73–74)
“around our group I could hear the wilderness listen.”
—William Stafford (1914–1941)