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:

    “No man rises so high as he knows not whither he goes.”
    —Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658)

    “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)