The Last Wild Places of Kansas Quotes

“Whether if fits our national self-image or not, much of American history is gathered in the grass, strewn haphazardly behind old barns and in fields, cached in undiscovered archaeological sites and ghost towns, and harbored in the little clumps of wilderness that still remain.”
― George Frazier, The Last Wild Places of Kansas: Journeys into Hidden Landscapes

“Some private property is private like a Native American religion: esoteric, given by the Great Mystery for a time to a group, a family, even a single person. I could honor a sign that read, "Posted: No trespassing on this land for four generations or until we have completely digested its secrets, died in its hills, given back our bodies." Such farmers don't own the land, it owns them.”
― George Frazier, The Last Wild Places of Kansas: Journeys into Hidden Landscapes

“...there should be a few places where prairie dogs can just be prairie dogs, where they can kick back and fulfill their niches in the grand scheme of the shortgrass prairie, work on their whistles, try to dig to China or least to Amarillo. Sooner or later a hungry mother kit fox will strike blood, but until then there should be a few places where prairie dogs don't have to worry about two guys bumping chests behind a pickup truck after a single exploding bullet launches them heavenward for an extra eleven points. "Montana Mist!" If not on public lands like the Cimarron National Grassland, then where?”
― George Frazier, The Last Wild Places of Kansas: Journeys into Hidden Landscapes

“The veins of Kansans may bleed prisms of Jayhawk blue and red, Wildcat purple, or Shocker black and gold, but our identity as a buffalo state unites all Kansans. By what right though? Our iconic state mammal is extirpated in the wild, and for more than 125 years now we have chosen not to share our wild lands with the buffalo.”
― George Frazier, The Last Wild Places of Kansas: Journeys into Hidden Landscapes

“Virgin forest. It sounds as out of place in Kansas as voting Democrat.”
― George Frazier, The Last Wild Places of Kansas: Journeys into Hidden Landscapes

“The name Medicine Lodge has a sadness to it - a lost western kind of sadness - like a line of cattle slowly walking through the forgotten remains of a
buffalo wallow.”
― George Frazier, The Last Wild Places of Kansas: Journeys into Hidden Landscapes