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

We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it — for a little while.

To people off alone, as we were, there is something stirring about finding evidences of human labour and care in the soil of an empty country. It comes to you as a sort of message, makes you feel differently about the ground you walk over every day.

When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.