| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c766523 | It is a country to breed mystical people, egocentric people, perhaps poetic people. But not humble ones...Puny you may feel there, and vulnerable, but not unnoticed. This is a land to mark the sparrow's fall | great-plains environmental-history | Wallace Stegner | |
| bf000aa | Resources, waterways, and climatic zones loom so large in their writings that one can almost forget that people have something to do with the building of cities. | environmental-history historiography urban-history | William Cronon |