Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: August 8, 1896 - December 14, 1953
Birthday: August 8
Death: December 14
Men had reached into the scrub and along its boundaries, had snatched what they could get and had gone away, uneasy in that vast indifferent peace; for a man was nothing, crawling ant-like among the myrtle bushes under the pines. Now they were gone, it was as though they had never been. The silence of the scrub was primordial. The wood-thrush crying across it might have been the first bird in the world-or the last.
topic: Men, Bird, Silence, Myrtle, Thrush
