#columbia

And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves. ↗

— Robert Treat Paine

#columbia #earth #plant #rolls #sea

Beautiful prairies, bordered by lofty hills sparsely scattered with timber, stretch around. The massive fronds of the Pinus Ponderosa replace the elegant leaflets of the Cedar, no longer found save rarely, perchance, in some deep dell moistened by a purling streamlet. Groves of aspen appear here and there. The Balsam Poplar shows itself at intervals only, along the streams. The white racemes of the Service-berry flower, and the chaste flowers of the Mock Orange, load the air with their fragrance. Every copse re-echoes with the low drumming of the ruffed Grouse; the trees resound with the muffled booming of the Cock of the Woods. The Pheasant shirrs past; the scrannel-pipe of the larger Crane -- ever a watchful sentinel -- grates harshly on the ear; and the shrill whistle of the Curlew as it soars aloft aides the general concert of the re-opined year. I speak still of Spring; for the impressions of that jocum season are ever the most vivid, and naturally recur with the greatest force in after years. -- Alexander Caulfield Anderson describing the new brigade trail between Lac la Hache and Kamloops. ↗

— Nancy Marguerite Anderson

#fur-trade #history #beauty

Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#assured #columbia #connection #had #me

Our ages ranged from 22, down to 18, and we had a 6 month contract to go to Bogata, Columbia. And of course, it was during the depression, we were still with our parents, and things were still pretty tough on them back in the United States. ↗

— Martin Denny

#back #columbia #contract #course #depression

I didn't realize - you think you are doing a movie but then you realize it's a Columbia Pictures movie so it's probably going to have some publicity. Then you see a billboard and it's like, 'God! I'm on a billboard!' It doesn't hit all at once, it kind of unravels itself and it's still unraveling. ↗

— Chris Evans

#columbia #doing #god #going #hit

I'm not impressed by people's degrees. Harvard doesn't impress me, Yale doesn't impress me, Columbia doesn't impress me. ↗

— Sean Hannity

#degrees #harvard #i #impress #impressed

After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer. ↗

— James Tobin

#columbia #columbia university #days #entered #i

There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south. ↗

— Denis Kearney

#british #british columbia #chinese #columbia #few

Whether fuel cell system development in central Oregon, wind power generation along the Columbia Gorge, or geothermal energy in southern Oregon, investing in new energy sources makes America more energy independent while creating good paying, environmentally friendly jobs. ↗

— Greg Walden

#america #cell #central #columbia #creating

A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties. ↗

— Russell Banks

#couple #early #eighties #graduate #i