"Samuel finally understood the sound of the wind after all these years: The winds were a chorus of the prairie’s ever-present heartaches."
- Andrew Galasetti
"What makes it smell so sweet?" they wanted to know. "Because everything,--every little wild plum-blossom, every little tiny crocus and anemone and violet and every tree-bud and grass-blade is working ..."
- Bess Streeter Aldrich
"I wish I could wrap up the glitter star-green of this moment and hand it to you like an angel gift. Give you the heat lightning flying in jagged silence over the distant mountains. And the smell of Se..."
- Carew Papritz