Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life...

Awards and honours
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Annual Novel Award 1944 for Green Dolphin Country. Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge FRSL (24 April 1900 – 1 April 1984) was an English author of novels short stories and children's books as Elizabeth Goudge.

A best-selling author in both the UK and the US from the 1930s through the 1970s her books gained renewed attention in 1993 when one of them was plagiarised by Indrani Aikath-Gyaltsen. Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge FRSL (24 April 1900 – 1 April 1984) was an English author of novels short stories and children's books as Elizabeth Goudge. The "new" novel set in India garnered rave reviews in both The New York Times and the The Washington Post before its source was discovered.