Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: "Para lelaki telah menggapai semak belukar d...

"Para lelaki telah menggapai semak belukar dan sepanjang perbatasannya, telah merebut apa yang bisa mereka dapatkan dan pergi, gelisah dalam kedamaian luas yang acuh tak acuh; bagi seorang pria tidak ada apa-apanya, merangkak seperti semut di antara semak-semak murad di bawah pohon pinus. Sekarang mereka pergi, seolah-olah mereka belum pernah pergi. Kesunyian semak belukar terasa primordial. Kayu-sariawan menangis di atasnya mungkin burung pertama di dunia-atau yang terakhir."

--- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Versi Bahasa Inggris

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.