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1 " The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies. "
― Laura Ingalls Wilder , Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist: Writings from the Ozarks
2 " There was no time to lose, no time to waste in rest or play. The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime. "
― Laura Ingalls Wilder , Farmer Boy (Little House, #2)
3 " So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under. And that was the last of the little house. "
― Laura Ingalls Wilder , Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)
4 " The snug log house looked just as it always had. It did not seem to know they were going away. "
5 " So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under. And that was the last of the little house "
― Laura Ingalls Wilder , Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #3)
6 " One day in the woods he met an Indian. They stood in the wet, cold woods and looked at each other, and they could not talk because they did not know each other's words "
7 " You can fill a glass full to the brim with milk, and fill another glass of the same size brim full of popcorn, and then you can put all the popcorn kernel by kernel into the milk, and the milk will not run over. You cannot do this with bread. Popcorn and milk are the only two things that will go into the same place. "
8 " One day in the woods he met an Indian. They stood in the wet, cold woods and looked at each other, and they could not talk because they did not know each other's words. "
9 " Cattle did not have to be led to water. They came eagerly to the trough and drank while Almanzo pumped, then they hurried back to the warm barns, and each went to its own place. Each cow turned into her own stall and put her head between her own stanchions. They never made a mistake.Whether this was because they had more sense than horses, or because they had so little sense that they did everything by habit, Father did not know. "
10 " Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957) "
― Laura Ingalls Wilder
11 " We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention. "
12 " Laura knew then that she was not a little girl any more. Now she was alone; she must take care of herself. When you must do that, then you do it and you are grown up. Laura was not very big, but she was almost thirteen years old, and no one was there to depend on. Pa and Jack had gone, and Ma needed help to take care of Mary and the little girls, and somehow to get them all safely to the west on a train. "
13 " Ma had been very fashionable, before she married Pa, and a dressmaker had made her clothes. "
14 " A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing. "
15 " Home is the nicest word there is. "
16 " There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home. "
― Laura Ingalls Wilder , Little Town on the Prairie (Little House, #7)
17 " It was muskets that won the Revolution. And don't forget it was axes, and plows that made this country.- Father Wilder "
18 " These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em. "
― Laura Ingalls Wilder , The Long Winter (Little House, #6)
19 " Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat. In our mad rush for progress and modern improvements let's be sure we take along with us all the old-fashioned things worth while. "
― Laura Ingalls Wilder ,
20 " Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime. "
