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Originally Posted by HeadedWest
Right. Only 95% of Illinois is flat and featureless.
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"An alert race can never develop in a forest--a forested country can never be the center of radiation for man. Nor can the higher type of man develop in a lowland river-bottom country with plentiful food and luxuriant vegetation. It is on the plataeu and relatively level uplands that life is most exciting and response to stimulus most beneficial."
H.F. Osborn, 1928
"The children of the American Revolution hesitated forty years at the western edges of the forest because they didn't trust the grasslands."
Sellers Archer from "The American Grass Book" 1953
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