Miracles rest not so much upon healing power coming suddenly near us from afar, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for the moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what has been there around us always.
Quotes by Willa Cather
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself.
There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back.
The air and the earth interpenetrated in the warm gusts of spring; the soil was full of sunlight, and the sunlight full of red dust. The air one breathed was saturated with earthy smells, and the grass under foot had a reflection of the blue sky in it.
Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
Where there is great love, there are always miracles.
She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last.

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