It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature. Laura Ingalls Wilder More Quotes by Laura Ingalls Wilder More Quotes From Laura Ingalls Wilder The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime. All the wild seeds of weed and thistle, the sprouts of vine and bush and tree, are trying to take the fields. Farmers must fight them with harrow and plow and hoe; they must plant the good seeds quickly. Laura Ingalls Wilder weed fighting spring So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them. Laura Ingalls Wilder white house littles When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. ... The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun. Laura Ingalls Wilder gun home doors She thought to herself, "This is now." She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago. Laura Ingalls Wilder cozy house long And just as a little thread of gold, running through a fabric, brightens the whole garment, so women's work at home, while only the doing of little things, like the golden gleam of sunlight runs through and brightens all the fabric of civilization. Laura Ingalls Wilder home running civilization We are the heirs of the ages; but the estate is entailed, as large estates frequently are, so that while we inherit the earth, the great round world which is God's footstool, we have only the use of it while we live and must pass it on to those come after us. We hold the property in trust and have no right to injure it or to lessen its value. To do so is dishonest, stealing from our heirs their inheritance. Laura Ingalls Wilder future use age The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all. Laura Ingalls Wilder white lakes sky Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones. Laura Ingalls Wilder tables-and-chairs bed house I understood....that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history. Laura Ingalls Wilder american-history understood periods When the fiddle had stopped singing Laura called out softly, "What are days of auld lang syne, Pa?" "They are the days of a long time ago, Laura," Pa said. "Go to sleep, now." But Laura lay awake a little while, listening to Pa's fiddle softly playing and to the lonely sound of the wind in the Big Woods,… She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago. Laura Ingalls Wilder lonely sleep wind There's no great loss without some small gain. Laura Ingalls Wilder prairie gains loss 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 laura light mind We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the 'woman's vote' as one and indivisible. Laura Ingalls Wilder vote together thinking We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started. Laura Ingalls Wilder fixed suits ifs The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for. Laura Ingalls Wilder organization trouble attention Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens. Laura Ingalls Wilder sooner-or-later naughty easier There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home. Laura Ingalls Wilder little-house-on-the-prairie comfort home The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way. Laura Ingalls Wilder uplifting courage heart They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now. Laura Ingalls Wilder woods different long Oh no, I never do much ironing, except the outside clothes. We must not iron out the fresh air and sunshine, you know. It is much more healthful not to, the doctors say.” Seriously, there is something very refreshing about sheets and pillow slips just fresh from the line, after being washed and dried in the sun and air. Just try them that way and see if your sleep is not sweeter. Laura Ingalls Wilder sunshine doctors sleep
