Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.
LAURA INGALLS WILDERHome is the nicest word there is.
More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes
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In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.
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The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
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All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.
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We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
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No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
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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 Christmas-time.
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Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
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These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
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We’d never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
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We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.
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Money hasn’t any value of its own; it represents the stored up energy of men and women and is really just someone’s promise to pay a certain amount of that energy.
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We go lightheartedly on our way, never thinking that by a careless word or two we may have altered the whole course of human lives, for some person will take our advice and use it.
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Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?
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It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
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The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
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