High Country

High country may refer to:

  • High country (New Zealand)
  • "High Country", a nickname for parts of western North Carolina in the United States
  • "High Country", a nickname for the Colorado Plateau, including the towns of Flagstaff, Sedona, Page, and Payson in northern Arizona
  • "High country", a region northeast of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia

Famous quotes containing the words high and/or country:

    “Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and superseded by elements of lower quality.”
    —Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

    “A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.”
    —Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)