Willa Cather Quotes

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Willa Cather

• Nature
• Way
• Tree
• Aging
• Resigned

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• I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Nature
  • Way
  • Tree