It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
Willa CatherArtistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.
Willa CatherThey 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 Cather