Country Quote by Willa Cather

There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

— Willa Cather

On my passage thither, I discovered nothing remarkable in the features of the country.

— William Henry Ashley

No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth.

— Philipp Meyer

What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like…

— George Martin

We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a…

— Vladimir Nabokov

It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where nothing yet had happened…

— Clifford D. Simak

Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.

— Leon Krier

Here I was at the end of America...no more land...and nowhere was nowhere to go but back

— Jack Kerouac

When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for…

— Neil Abercrombie

What would this country be without this great land of ours.

— Ronald Reagan

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

— George Carlin

For many years, at great cost, I traveled through many countries, saw the high mountains, the oceans. The only things I did not see…

— Rabindranath Tagore