Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed, but not bought. It may be used, but not owned. It gives itself in response to love and tending, offers its sesonal flowering and fruiting. But we are tenants and not possessors, lovers, and not masters. Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time..."

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Rain, Thinking, Wind

• We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Heart, Men, Earth

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.3, Booklassic

• It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow in the scrub, while by every branch and lake and river there grew magnolias. Dogs were the same everywhere, and oxen and mules and horses. But trees were different in different places.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Dog, Horse, Rain

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2011). “The Yearling”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

• It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used but not owned. We are tenants, not possessors, lovers and not masters.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Earth, May, Lovers

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.329, Booklassic

• Magic birds were dancing in the mystic marsh. The grass swayed with them, and the shallow waters, and the earth fluttered under them. The earth was dancing with the cranes, and the low sun, and the wind and sky.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Wind, Sky, Dancing

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1985). “The Yearling”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

• They were all too tightly bound together, men and women, creatures wild and tame, flowers, fruits and leaves, to ask that any one be spared. As long as the whole continued, the earth could go about its business.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Flower, Men, Long

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