"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
Looks very much like Texas, I think. I lived near Dallas for four years and was just amazed at how flat it was and how incredibly wide and high the sky is. Say that to someone from here who's never been there and they look at you like you're a nut. Of course the sky is wide and high! But it really is totally different.
I love Texas, too, but I'm glad we have more grass and trees.
The sky is a totally different entity when it surrounds you. As Cather says, elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; here, the earth is the floor to all that sky.
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Date: 2011-03-12 02:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-12 02:08 am (UTC)The sky is a totally different entity when it surrounds you. As Cather says, elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; here, the earth is the floor to all that sky.