Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: "homens haviam enfiado no esfoliante e ao lo...

"homens haviam enfiado no esfoliante e ao longo de suas fronteiras, pegou o que podiam conseguir e desapareceram, desconfortável naquela vasta paz indiferente; Para um homem não era nada, rastejando a formiga entre os arbustos Myrtle sob os pinheiros. Agora eles se foram, era como se nunca tivessem sido. O silêncio do esfoliante era primordial. O tronco de madeira chorando em cima pode ter sido o primeiro ave no mundo - ou o último."

--- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Versão em inglês

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.