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Quotation from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
“For the first time, perhaps, since that land emerged from the waters of geologic ages, a human face was set toward it with love and yearning.”
O Pioneers!, Part I: The Wild Land, Ch. V
Alexandra returns from the river farms convinced that the Divide has a future.
Citation: "For the first time, perhaps, since that land emerged from the waters of geologic ages, a human face was set toward it with love and yearning." — Willa Cather, O Pioneers!, Part I: The Wild Land, Ch. V. (id o-pioneers-q1)
Portrait: Willa Cather ca. 1912 wearing necklace from Sarah Orne Jewett (cropped), Photographer: Aime Dupont Studio, New York, Public domain.
