The land belongs to the future, Carl; that's the way it seems to me. How many of the names on the county clerk's plat will be there in fifty years? I might as well try to will the sunset over there to my brother's children. We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it--for a little while.

She had been attending Episcopal services since 1906. Although Willa Cather was born into a Baptist family Cather joined the Episcopal Church in 1922. In 1923 Willa Cather was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922) a novel set during World War I.

In 1923 Willa Cather was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922) a novel set during World War I. She lived and worked in Pittsburgh for ten years then at the age of 33 Willa Cather moved to New York where Willa Cather lived for the rest of her life.