Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Quotes
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.
Citations
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. Cross Creek. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942.
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