Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“We were bred of earth before we were born of our mothers. Once born, we can live without mother or father, or any other kin, or any friend, or any human loCross Creek.M.K.Rawlinsve. 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
Cross Creek