Lisha Epperson

“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree knows everything I ever think of when I sit here. When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything; I begin just where I left off.”
― Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

“It was to him a very strange and perplexing place, where people wore fine clothes and had hard hearts.”
― Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

“Things away from home often look better than they are.”
― Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

“But the great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes. It was from facing this vast hardness that the boy's mouth had become so bitter; because he felt that men were too weak to make any mark here, that the land wanted to be let alone, to preserve its own fierce strength, its peculiar, savage kind of beauty, its uninterrupted mournfulness.”
― Willa Cather, O Pioneers!