10 quotes
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.
O Pioneers! (1913)
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
O Pioneers! (1913)
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
O Pioneers! (1913)
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.
O Pioneers! (1913)
Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. Here you are an individual, you have a background of your own, you would be missed.
O Pioneers! (1913)
The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.
O Pioneers! (1913)
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years.
O Pioneers! (1913)
Isn't it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years.
O Pioneers! (1913)
There was about Alexandra something of the impervious calm of the fatalist, always disconcerting to very young people, who cannot feel that the heart lives at all unless it is still at the mercy of storms; unless its strings can scream to the touch of pain.
O Pioneers! (1913)
The years seemed to stretch before her like the land: spring, summer, autumn, winter, spring; always the same patient fields, the patient little trees, the patient lives; always the same yearning; the same pulling at the chain — until the instinct to live had torn itself and bled and weakened for the last time, until the chain secured a dead woman, who might cautiously be released.
O Pioneers! (1913)