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Gene Stratton-Porter

Gene Stratton-Porter (August 17, 1863 – December 6, 1924), born Geneva Grace Stratton, was a Wabash County, Indiana, native who became a self-trained American author, nature photographer, and naturalist. In 1917 Stratton-Porter used her position and influence as a popular, well-known author to urge legislative support for the conservation of Limberlost Swamp and other wetlands in the state of Indiana. She was also a silent film-era producer who founded her own production company, Gene Stratton Porter Productions, in 1924.

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To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.

Fiction, Greatest, Life, Pieces, Thinking

Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead.

Action, Ahead, Right

we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful.

Beautiful, Occasionally, Poetic, Skunks, Very Beautiful

But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora. "Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy.

Aunt, Boy, Boys, Like, Likes, Objected

Is he well educated?" "Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone," I answered. "Of course he will go on being educated every day of his life, same as father. He says it is all rot about 'finishing' your education. You never do. You learn more important things each day.

Educated, Father, Finishing, Important, Thinking

There never was a moment in my life, when I felt so in the Presence, as I do now. I feel as if the Almighty were so real, and so near, that I could reach out and touch Him, as I could this wonderful work of His, if I dared. I feel like saying to Him: 'To the extent of my brain power I realize Your presence, and all it is in me to comprehend of Your power. Help me to learn, even this late, the lessons of Your wonderful creations. Help me to unshackle and expand my soul to the fullest realization of Your wonders. Almighty God, make me bigger, make me broader!

Brain, Lessons, Presence, Real, Soul, Wonderful

You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself.

Feels, Heart, Write, Writing

We never know the timber of a man's soul until something cuts into him deeply and brings the grain out strong. You've the making of a mighty fine piece of furniture.

Cutting, Fine, Grain, Men, Soul, Strong

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to leave him with a higher ideal of life than he had when he began. If in one small degree it shows him where he can be. . . gentler, saner, cleaner, kindlier. . . it is a wonder-working book. If it opens his eyes to one beauty in nature he never saw for himself and leads him one step toward the God of the Universe, it is a beneficial book.

Book, Eye, Higher, Piece, Thinking, Universe

the occasional cries of a lost loon, strayed from its flock in northern migration, fill the swamp with sounds of wailing.

Flock, Migration, Occasional, Sound, Swamps, Wailing

Now what is a guest? A thing of a day! A person who disturbs your routine and interferes with important concerns. Why should any one be grateful for company? Why should time and money be lavished on visitors? They come. You overwork yourself. They go. You are glad of it. You return the visit, because it's the only way to have back at them.

Day, Grateful, Important, Money, Person, Visitors

I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.

Different, Fate, Gives, Giving, Life, Want Something

the friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed;. . . if people were not friends in need, there was every likelihood that they never would be friends again in any conditions that might obtain.

Deed, Friend, Friends, People, Would Be

I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.

Bird, Inspiration, Same, Sing, Usually, Writing

There was an exquisitely beautiful conception in my brain when I did this piece of work all alone from midnight until morning after the experience of a wonderful day. But I was not able to make the consummation anywhere nearly as beautiful as the inspiration. That, I suppose, is the cry of every heart struggling for self-expression.

Beautiful, Experience, Heart, Inspiration, Morning

The seasons run with swift feet.

Feet, Run, Running, Seasons, Swift

no one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.

Doe, Knows, Littlenesses, Men, Whole, Wife

Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

Choose, Evil, Evils, Lesser, Two, Two Evils

Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another.

Dead, One Thing, Ready, Thing, Wedding

I do not believe there is any one study that can be taken up that will broaden the imagination, that will be the source from which will spring more deep thinking and sincere research than the study of astronomy.

Astronomy, Believe, Imagination, Spring, Taken

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