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..."

Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.

I had done battle with a great fear and the victory was mine.

He who tries to forget a woman, never loved her

Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.

people in general are totally unable to detach the personality of a writer from the products of his thinking.

the truth is artistically fallacious.