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Our inability to see things that are right before our eyes, until they are pointed out to us, would be amusing if it were not at times so serious. We are coming, I think, to depend too much on being t...

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Our inability to see things that are right before our eyes, until they are pointed out to us, would be amusing if it were not at times so serious. We are coming, I think, to depend too much on being t...

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 whi...

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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 whi...

About Author
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder (February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957) was an American writer. The Little House on the Prairie series of children's books, published between 1932 and 1943, were based on her childhood in a settler and pioneer family.The television series Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983) was loosely based on the books, and starred Melissa Gilbert as Laura and Michael Landon as her father, Charles Ingalls.

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...

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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...

Tags: little house on the prairie, memoir

Roma tidaklah dibangun dalam waktu sehari. Begitu juga sebuah jalan kereta api. Atau hal-hal lain yang menyenangkan dalam hidup ini. - Charles Ingalls

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Roma tidaklah dibangun dalam waktu sehari. Begitu juga sebuah jalan kereta api. Atau hal-hal lain yang menyenangkan dalam hidup ini. - Charles Ingalls

Tags: books, romantis

A farmer depends on himself, and the land and the weather. If you're a farmer, you raise what you eat, you raise what you wear, and you keep warm with wood out of your own timber. You work hard, but y...

Laura Ingalls Wilder

A farmer depends on himself, and the land and the weather. If you're a farmer, you raise what you eat, you raise what you wear, and you keep warm with wood out of your own timber. You work hard, but y...

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

Tags: simple, sweet, simple things

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

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.

Tags: little house on the prairie, memoir

Ma!" she cried. "There is a Santa Claus, isn't there?""Of course there's a Santa Claus," said Ma. "The older you are, the more you know about Santa Claus," she said. "You are so big now, you know he c...

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Ma!" she cried. "There is a Santa Claus, isn't there?""Of course there's a Santa Claus," said Ma. "The older you are, the more you know about Santa Claus," she said. "You are so big now, you know he c...

Tags: christmas, santa claus

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.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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.

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

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.

Tags: progress, progressivism, simplicity

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

Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)

Tags: culture, expectations, fairness, injustice, perception, society

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

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.

Tags: life

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.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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.

Tags: christmas

You could buy a suckling pig with it, if you want to. You could raise it, and it would raise a litter of pigs, worth four, five dollars apiece. Or you can trade that half-dollar for lemonade, and drin...

Laura Ingalls Wilder

You could buy a suckling pig with it, if you want to. You could raise it, and it would raise a litter of pigs, worth four, five dollars apiece. Or you can trade that half-dollar for lemonade, and drin...

Tags: common sense, hard work, wisdom

Then the sun peeped over the edge of the prairie and the whole world glittered. Every tiniest thing glittered rosy toward the sun and pale blue toward the sky, and all along every blade of grass ran r...

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Then the sun peeped over the edge of the prairie and the whole world glittered. Every tiniest thing glittered rosy toward the sun and pale blue toward the sky, and all along every blade of grass ran r...

Ma had been very fashionable, before she married Pa, and a dressmaker had made her clothes.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Ma had been very fashionable, before she married Pa, and a dressmaker had made her clothes.

Tags: humorous

This earthly life is a battle,' said Ma. 'If it isn't one thing to contend with, it's another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off yo...

Laura Ingalls Wilder

This earthly life is a battle,' said Ma. 'If it isn't one thing to contend with, it's another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off yo...

So to the end when life’s dim shadows fall,                  Love will be found the sweetest song of all.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

So to the end when life’s dim shadows fall,                  Love will be found the sweetest song of all.

There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.

All the land our forefathers had was a little strip of country, here between the mountains and the ocean. All the way from here west was Indian country, and Spanish and French and English country. It...

Laura Ingalls Wilder

All the land our forefathers had was a little strip of country, here between the mountains and the ocean. All the way from here west was Indian country, and Spanish and French and English country. It...