"Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky. The landscape one longed for when one was away ... the world one actually lived in, was the sky, the sky!"Willa Cather
Willa grew up a little over two hours drive away and a little under a century away from me. Her best literature concerned the prairie and the people who lived there.
One of the things I like about great expanses of water is that they evoke the feeling of freedom and eternity like the prairie.
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Date: 2011-03-11 05:49 pm (UTC)We rarely get the chance to have so much sky over land - too many hills! But I get skies like that over water, sometimes.
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Date: 2011-03-12 12:05 am (UTC)One of the things I like about great expanses of water is that they evoke the feeling of freedom and eternity like the prairie.