Houses are individual and can be owned, like nests, and fought for. But what of the land? 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 (1942)

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Quotes

Houses are individual and can be owned, like nests, and fought for. But what of the land? It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not...

Houses are individual and can be owned, like nests, and fought for. But what of the land? It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not...

Houses are individual and can be owned, like nests, and fought for. But what of the land? It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not...

Houses are individual and can be owned, like nests, and fought for. But what of the land? It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not...