The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried under a wreath of magnolia leaves. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings More Quotes by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings More Quotes From Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings A dead tree, falling, made less havoc than a live one. It seemed as though a live tree went down fighting, like an animal. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings fighting animal fall Two elements enter into successful and happy gatherings at table. The food, whether simple or elaborate, must be carefully prepared; willingly prepared; imaginatively prepared. And the guests - friends, family or strangers - must be conscious of their welcome. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings successful simple two No, I most certainly do not think advertising people are wonderful. I think they are horrible, and the worst menace to mankind, next to war; perhaps ahead of war. They stand for the material viewpoint, for the importance of possessions, of desire, of envy, of greed. And war comes from these things. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings war people thinking It is not death that kills us, but life. We are done to death by life. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings life-and-death done the inferred is always more effective than the obvious. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings obvious Here in Florida the seasons move in and out like nuns in soft clothing, making no rustle in their passing. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings florida passing moving 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 horse dog rain Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings understood silence answers 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 dancing sky wind Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings forever boys past It is impossible to be among the woods animals on their own ground without a feeling of expanding one's own world, as when any foreign country is visited. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings nature animal country Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings nonconformity variety madness But to make the intangible tangible, to pick the emotion out of the air and make it true for others, is both the blessing and the curse of the writer, for the thing between book covers is never as beautiful as the thing he imagined. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings blessing beautiful book Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings dollars experience wisdom no case of libel by a negro against a white would even reach a southern court. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings southern racism white For myself, the Creek satisfies a thing that had gone hungry and unfed since childhood days. I am often lonely. Who is not? But I should be lonelier in the heart of a city. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings lonely cities heart Life is strong stuff, some of us can bear more of it than others. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings strong bears stuff You kin tame a bear. You kin tame a wild-cat and you kin tame a panther. ... You kin tame arything, son, excusin' the human tongue. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings cat talking son ...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. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings delicate-life pie thinking Living was no longer the grief behind him, but the anxiety ahead. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings anxiety behinds grief
