I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
Willa CatherFrom the time the Englishman's bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.
Willa CatherThe heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.
Willa Cather