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“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.”

Quote by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an American author renowned for her works set in the Florida Everglades. Her novel 'The Yearling' earned her the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1939. Born on August 8, 1896, Rawlings passed away on December 14, 1953. more

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