Badlands NP, SD, 2024

Outtake from “Go West Old Man” tour

“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, one clover and a bee, and revery. The revery alone will do, if bees are few.”-Emily Dickinson

“While I know the standard claim is that Yosemite, Niagara falls, the upper Yellowstone and the like, afford the greatest natural shows, I am not so sure but the Prairies and Plains, while less stunning at first sight, last longer, fill the esthetic sense fuller, precede all the rest, and make North America’s characteristic landscape.”- Walt Whitman

“I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.” -Geronimo

“A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.”-Sitting Bull

“The wilderness needs your whole attention.”-Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Anybody can love the mountains, but it takes a soul to love the prairie.”-Willa Cather

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