"Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think,……" — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
"Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..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 sesonal flowering and fruiting. But we are tenants and not possessors, lovers, and not masters. Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time...""
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.
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