As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wi… - Willa Cather
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As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of winestains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running.
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