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 wine-stains, 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.