He had missed the deepest of all companionships, a relation with the earth itself, with a countryside and a people. That relationship he knew cannot … - Willa Cather

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He had missed the deepest of all companionships, a relation with the earth itself, with a countryside and a people. That relationship he knew cannot be gone after and found; it must be long and deliberate, unconscious. It must, indeed, be a way of living.