Famous quotes containing the words west and/or plains:
“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.”
—Jessamyn West (1902–1984)
“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)