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.
Willa CatherA work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
Willa CatherAfter all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.
Willa Cather