Willa Cather Quotes

While The Train Flashed Through Never-ending Miles Of Ripe Wheat, By Country Towns And Bright-flowered Pastures And Oak Groves Wilting In The Sun, We Sat In The Observation Car, Where The Woodwork Was Hot To The Touch And Red Dust Lay Deep Over Everything. The Dust And Heat, The Burning Wind, Reminded Us Of Many Things. We Were Talking About What It Is Like To Spend One's Childhood In Little Towns Like These, Buried In Wheat And Corn, Under Stimulating Extremes Of Climate: Burning Summers When The World Lies Green And Billowy Beneath A Brilliant Sky, When One Is Fairly Stifled In Vegetation, In The Color And Smell Of Strong Weeds And Heavy Harvests; Blustery Winters With Little Snow, When The Whole Country Is Stripped Bare And Gray As Sheet-iron. We Agreed That No One Who Had Not Grown Up In A Little Prairie Town Could Know Anything About It. It Was A Kind Of Freemasonry, We Said.

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