Willa Cather Quotes

From sea to sea

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

Everything has to do with geography.

The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.

Land is the productivity of our country.

There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

Anything to do with the land, I love.

I think of Canada, first and foremost, in terms of space. The amount of space available is breathtaking.

Tibet is a beautiful and richly endowed region of our great motherland.

I used to live in Canada. It's a beautiful country with a lot of different kind of topographic regions.

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.

We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.

What, ultimately, is Greece if it is not the people who live in this country? It's not the mountains and the plains.

I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them.

If you ask me, the place that a story happens is as equal character. It's almost like an ecological viewpoint: These people are living in this piece of land, and in this piece of land in this time this is possible. For me, I almost think location first. It's time first - what year is it - then where are we, and then who is in it.

When it comes to Washington, most people tend to think first of politics. But Washington is also a geographic and physical place. It is, for instance, one of the few cities of the world where you can talk endlessly about trees.

The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky.

The land was ours before we were the land’s She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people ...

Italy is a geographical concept.

History is not intelligible without geography.

The country itself is the best I have ever seen for producing all the products of Spain... But what I am sure of is that there is not any gold nor any other metal in all that country

Florida is a great microcosm of the country.

I don't want to make light of the importance of my musical upbringing, as you cannot avoid being influenced by the area you grow up, but I will say that Reykjavik's geography is very different from, say, New York, Paris, or Copenhagen. There's big skies. The buildings are low. The landscape is spread out.

Something that has been every important to me in all my projects has been location, the place where they are installed.

You may be on land, yet not in a garden.