Prairie Dog Colonies

Famous quotes containing the words prairie dog, prairie, dog and/or colonies:

    “To the cry of “follow Mormons and prairie dogs and find good land,” Civil War veterans flocked into Nebraska, joining a vast stampede of unemployed workers, tenant farmers, and European immigrants.”
    —For the State of Nebraska, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,—”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

    “Thou call’st me dog before thou hadst a cause,
    But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)