Things I've Heard and Read

Commenting on how the wind blows the dust around in spring, my neighbor said:

"Oh my god, did you see all the enchantment blowing around yesterday? I have piles of enchantment collecting on the windowsills"

To appreciate the west, the author Wallace Stegner once remarked,

"You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale". 

Describing New Mexico's landscape in Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather wrote:

"Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky."

Then there's this:

"New Mexico is so windy because Texas blows and Arizona sucks."