High Plains

High Plains refers to one of two distinct land regions:

  • High Plains (United States), land region of the western Great Plains
  • High Plains (Australia), land region adjacent to the Great Dividing Range

Famous quotes containing the words high and/or plains:

    “As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of my way to admire the hole which he made.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The Plains are not forgiving. Anything that is shallow—the easy optimism of a homesteader; the false hope that denies geography, climate, history; the tree whose roots don’t reach ground water—will dry up and blow away.”
    —Kathleen Norris (b. 1947)