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Giants in the Earth QUOTES

Giants in the Earth QUOTES

1 " But more to be dreaded than this tribulation was the strange spell of sadness which the unbroken solitude cast upon the minds of stone. "

― O.E. Rølvaag , Giants in the Earth

2 " When the quarrel had finally worn itself out they had found themselves at opposite ends of the earth, though lying side by side in the same bed. "

― O.E. Rølvaag , Giants in the Earth

3 " Here was the endless prairie, so rich in its blessings of fertility, but also full of great loneliness--a form of freedom which curiously affected the minds of strangers, especially those to whom the Lord had given a sad heart. "

― O.E. Rølvaag , Giants in the Earth

4 " The explanation was plain; this desolation out here called forth all that was evil in human nature. "

― O.E. Rølvaag , Giants in the Earth

5 " Many and incredible are the tales the grandfathers tell from those days when the wilderness was yet untamed, and when they, unwittingly, founded the Kingdom. "

― O.E. Rølvaag , Giants in the Earth

6 " A feeling of unfathomable loneliness settled upon her. "

― O.E. Rølvaag , Giants in the Earth

7 " People had never dwelt here, people would never come; never could they find home in this vast, wind-swept void. "

― O.E. Rølvaag , Giants in the Earth

8 " The caravan headed for the sky; it steered straight onward. Now, at last, Per Hansa had time to look about him and rejoice in what he saw... All he saw was beautiful "

― O.E. Rølvaag , Giants in the Earth

9 " Tish-ah!" said the grass. "Tish-ah, tish-ah!" Never had it said anything else--never would it say anything else. It bent resiliently under the trampling feet; it did not break, but it complained aloud every time--for nothing like this had ever happened to it before. "

― O.E. Rølvaag , Giants in the Earth

10 " An endless plain. From Kansas--Illinois, it stretched, far into the Canadian North, God alone knows how far; from the Mississippi River to the wester Rockies, miles without number... Endless...beginningless. "

― O.E. Rølvaag , Giants in the Earth

11 " Everything he had planted that spring was blooming like a garden. Why, he could just hear the potatoes grow! "

― O.E. Rølvaag , Giants in the Earth

12 " But it had been as if a resistless flood had torn them loose from their foundations and was carrying them helplessly along on it's current---flinging them here and there, hurling them madly onward, with no known destination ahead. "

― O.E. Rølvaag , Giants in the Earth

13 " It seemed plain to her now that human life could not endure in this country. "

― O.E. Rølvaag , Giants in the Earth