Gene Stratton-Porter Quotes

United States, Author
August 17, 1863 – December, 6, 1924.

Gene Stratton-Porter , born Geneva Grace Stratton, was a Wabash County, Indiana, native who became a self-trained American author, nature photographer, and naturalist. In 1917 Stratton-Porter used her position and influence as a popular, well-known author to urge legislative support for the conservation of Limberlost Swamp and other wetlands in the state of Indiana. She was also a silent film-era producer who founded her own production company, Gene Stratton Porter Productions, in 1924.

Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead.

Gene Stratton-Porter
- Right
- Ahead
To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to leave him with a higher ideal of life than he had when he began. If in one small degree it shows him where he can be...gentler, saner, cleaner, kindlier...it is a wonder-working book. If it opens his eyes to one beauty in nature he never saw for himself and leads him one step toward the God of the Universe, it is a beneficial book.

Gene Stratton-Porter
- Thinking
- Universe
- Wonder

Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.

Gene Stratton-Porter
- Nature
- Trusted
- Sights
I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.

Gene Stratton-Porter
- Inspiration
- Write
- Sing
Nature always levies her tribute.

Gene Stratton-Porter
- Nature
- Tribute
If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

Gene Stratton-Porter
- Choose
- Accept
- Willing
How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows.

Gene Stratton-Porter
- Believe
- Worst
- Majority
I know men and women. An honourable man is an honourable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One cannot change to the other any more than that same old leopard can change its spots. After a man tells a woman the first untruth of that sort, the others come piling thick, fast, and mountain high.

Gene Stratton-Porter
- Women
- Mountain
- Spots

You cannotwrite on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself.

Gene Stratton-Porter
- Yourself
- Cannot
- Another
There never was a moment in my life, when I felt so in the Presence, as I do now. I feel as if the Almighty were so real, and so near, that I could reach out and touch Him, as I could this wonderful work of His, if I dared. I feel like saying to Him: 'To the extent of my brain power I realize Your presence, and all it is in me to comprehend of Your power. Help me to learn, even this late, the lessons of Your wonderful creations. Help me to unshackle and expand my soul to the fullest realization of Your wonders. Almighty God, make me bigger, make me broader!

Gene Stratton-Porter