Topic : "Plains"

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor.

Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time, which explains why young years pass slowly, while later life flings itself faster and faster upon its course.