Album: Prairie Grouse

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"I was born on the prairie, where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures and where everything drew a free breath. I want to die there and not within walls." Patta-Wa-Samen (Ten Bears), Yamparika Comanche 1872 "Hiking in woods allows a traveler to imagine comforting enclosures, one leading to the next, and the walker can possess those little encompassed spaces, but the prairie and plains permit no such possession. Whatever else prairie is grass, sky, wind; it is most of all a paradigm of infinity, a clearing full of many things except boundaries, and its power comes from its apparent limitlessness." William Least Heat Moon, 'PrairyErth' "The tallgrass prairie stirs the imagination not because it is empty, but because it is vast. It challenges any Ptolemaic misconception that humans are the center of the universe. The unspeakable scale of distance; as far as the eye can see and then farther still, challenges the utmost abilities of the mind." Denise Low "Touching the Sky"