Prairie State Nature

Famous quotes containing the words prairie, state and/or nature:

    “The flower-fed buffaloes of the spring
    In the days of long ago,
    Ranged where the locomotives sing
    And the prairie flowers lie low:—”
    —Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)

    “And now the end is near
    And so I face the final curtain,
    I’ll state my case of which I’m certain.
    I’ve lived a life that’s full, I traveled each and ev’ry highway,
    And more, much more than this. I did it my way.”
    —Frank Sinatra (b. 1915)

    “No man is by nature the property of another. The defendant is, therefore, by nature free.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)