Red dirt may refer to:
- A type of red-colored, iron-rich soil found in various regions of the world such as the red clay soil commonly found throughout the American South as in Oklahoma
- Red Dirt (music), a genre of country-folk music originating in Stillwater, Oklahoma
- Red Dirt (film), a 2000 film directed by Tag Purvis featuring Karen Black, Dan Montgomery Jr., Walton Goggins, and Aleksa Palladino
- Red Dirt: Growing up Okie, a 1997 book by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- Red Dirt Pass located within the Mount Zirkel Wilderness Area in the American state of Colorado
Famous quotes containing the words red and/or dirt:
“The Spirit of Place [does not] exert its full influence upon a newcomer until the old inhabitant is dead or absorbed. So America.... The moment the last nuclei of Red [Indian] life break up in America, then the white men will have to reckon with the full force of the demon of the continent.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“What an antithetical mind!—tenderness, roughness—delicacy, coarseness—sentiment, sensuality—soaring and grovelling, dirt and deity—all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)