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 Wilder Read Quote
Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind. Laura Ingalls Wilder Read Quote
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. Laura Ingalls Wilder Read Quote
Mr. Wilder says he would rather have me help than any man he ever sawed with. And, believe me, I learned how to take care of hens and to make them lay. Laura Ingalls Wilder Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road. Laura Ingalls Wilder Read Quote
There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there. Laura Ingalls Wilder Read Quote
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. Laura Ingalls Wilder Read Quote
Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens. Laura Ingalls Wilder Read Quote
In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high. Laura Ingalls Wilder Read Quote
