. . . a pie so delicate, so luscious, that I hope to be propped up on my … - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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Not when the sense is dim, But now from the heart of joy, I would remember Him: Take the thanks of a boy.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

. . . a pie so delicate, so luscious, that I hope to be propped up on my dying bed and fed a generous portion. Then I think that I should refuse outright to die, for life would be too good to relinquish.

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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. . . "

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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

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Here in Florida the seasons move in and out like nuns in soft clothing, making no rustle in their passing.

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