Willa Cather Land Quotations

They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.

The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.

This land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces.

The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day began there; it was like an open door that nobody could shut. The land and all its dreariness could never close in on you. You had only to look at the lake, and you knew you would soon be free.

The land belongs to the future.

We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while.

Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.

There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.