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:

    “There is a sort of homely truth and naturalness in some books which is very rare to find, and yet looks cheap enough. There may be nothing lofty in the sentiment, or fine in the expression, but it is careless country talk. Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art. Some have this merit only.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Language is filled
    with words for deprivation
    images so familiar
    it is hard to crack language open
    into that other country
    the country of being.”
    —Susan Griffin (b. 1943)