I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

—Willa Cather

About Willa Cather

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Willa Sibert Cather (; born Wilella Sibert Cather; December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One...

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He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind.

—Willa Cather

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

—Willa Cather

Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.

—Willa Cather

That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.

—Willa Cather

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

—Willa Cather

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More quotations tagged with “trees”

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.

—Sir Walter Scott

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.

—Saint Bernard

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

—Publilius Syrus

Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

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