"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do." ― Willa Cather Topic(s): Nature More From Willa Cather "All the intelligence and talent in the world can’t make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can’t be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens." "It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of." "That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great." More In Nature "Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man."― Jean Ingelow "No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies."― Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton "The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected."― Henry David Thoreau