Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953) was a US writer. She is known for her pastoral classic Cross Creek and The Yearling which won Pulitzer Prize. She explored both cruel and benign sides of nature in her writings.

Wisdom & Quotes

• The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge.

- Cross Creek

• 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 seasonal flowering and fruiting. But we are tenants and not possessors, lovers and not masters.

- Cross Creek

Francis Scott Fitzgerald