The Best of Intentions A story of landscape Change in the Heart of the Great Plains Quotes

“Through the wizardry of market manipulation, "socialist" payments turned into capitalism-based relief. If you are going to be a socialist in the United States, it pays to do it correctly.”
― Larkin Powell, The Best of Intentions A story of landscape Change in the Heart of the Great Plains

“We have become too connected to ignore our impact on our neighbors.”
― Larkin Powell, The Best of Intentions A story of landscape Change in the Heart of the Great Plains

“Nebraskans take their highly modified landscape for granted- just the way things are. But such impacts are not normal outside the plains.”
― Larkin Powell, The Best of Intentions A story of landscape Change in the Heart of the Great Plains

“Outside the reservations, perhaps we feel as if we understand the dynamics that led predominately white settlers to colonize lands formally used and inhabited by Native peoples. Is there, if we are honest, a sigh of relief that this happened more than a century and a half before we started making personal decisions that influenced our communities? But we are on these lands, and the Ponca, the Omaha, the Sioux, and others are not.”
― Larkin Powell, The Best of Intentions A story of landscape Change in the Heart of the Great Plains

“Landscapes, of course, are more than their physical shape and biological contents. Although humans initially synchronize themselves into landscapes based on where and when food and other resources can be found, eventually landscapes become cultural.”
― Larkin Powell, The Best of Intentions A story of landscape Change in the Heart of the Great Plains

“As we stand on our modern hill seeking to imagine the history that has unfolded in the river valley below, we peer through a thick fog created by a depth of time. To mentally capture fleeing thoughts of how previous cultures use the land- that is what drives careers of anthropologists.”
― Larkin Powell, The Best of Intentions A story of landscape Change in the Heart of the Great Plains

“A couple years ago, a friend sent me coordinates that helped me find a group of six whooping cranes near the Platte River. They were nonchalantly feeding in a corn field, as if they did not realize their species was the most endangered bird in North America.”
― Larkin Powell, The Best of Intentions A story of landscape Change in the Heart of the Great Plains

“Grasslands have disappeared, and you cannot have meadowlarks without meadows.”
― Larkin Powell, The Best of Intentions A story of landscape Change in the Heart of the Great Plains