"Almanzo Wilder stood in the line of young men near the door, and Laura was embarrassed. She saw now that several young men were taking young ladies home. She felt her cheeks flushing and she did not know where to look."

They were all happy that night. The fire on the hearth was pleasant, for on the High Prairie even the summer nights were cool. The red-checked cloth was on the table, the little china woman glimmered on the mantel-shelf, and the new floor was golden in the flickering firelight. Outside, the night was large and full of stars. Pa sat for a long time in the doorway and played his fiddle and sang to Ma and Mary and Laura in the house and to the starry night outside.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura tried to think of the good brown smell and taste of the beef for dinner tomorrow, but she could not forget that now the houses and the town would be all alone until spring. There was half a bushel of wheat that they could grind to make flour, and there were the few potatoes, but nothing more to eat until the train came. The wheat and the potatoes were not enough.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

November, 1998

This quote is taken from "By The Shores of Silver Lake," page 127

She could not disappoint Ma. She must do as Pa said. So, she had to be a school teacher when she grew up. Besides, there was nothing else she could do to earn money.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

October, 1998

This quote is taken from "Little House In The Big Woods," page 44

They were cosy and comfortable in their little house made of logs, with the snow drifted around it and the wind crying because it could not get in by the fire.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

September, 1998

This quote is taken from "Farmer Boy," page 370

"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 you work as you please, and no man can tell you to go or come. You'll be free and independent, son, on a farm."

Laura Ingalls Wilder

August, 1998

This favorite quote was submitted by Ava P. Gunn from Mississippi

It is easier, for a time, to go with the current; but how much more can be accomplished if we would all be honest in our talk. We all despise a coward, but we sometimes forget there is a moral as well as a physical cowardice...It is weakness to one's personality and moral fiber to deny one's opinions or falsify one's self, while it throws broadcast into the world just that much more cowardice and untruth.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

July, 1998

This favorite quote was submitted by Ronald H. McDonald

We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acqainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts, and live our own lives.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

June, 1998

The quote is taken from Little House On The Prairie, page 324

The snug log house looked just as it always had. It did not seem to know they were going away. Pa stood a moment in the doorway and looked all around inside; he looked at the bedstead and the fireplace and the glass windows. Then he closed the door carefully, leaving the latch string out. "Someone might need shelter," he said.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

"Have you seen any fairies lately? I asked the question of a little girl not long ago. "Huh! There’s no such thing as fairies," she replied. In some way the answer hurt me, and I have been vaguely disquieted when I have thought of it ever since...

Have you seen any fairies lately, or have you allowed the harsher facts of life to dull your "seeing eye?"

Laura Ingalls Wilder

April, 1998

The quote is taken from "What Comes Out Of The Heart"
Saving Graces: Inspirational Writings Of Laura Ingalls Wilder

"...We show by our judgment just what the light within us is. What we see is always affected by the light in which we look at it so that no two persons see people and things alike. What we see and how we see depends upon the nature of our light..."

Laura Ingalls Wilder

March, 1998

The quote is taken from "A Little House Sampler", page 15

...but, at long last, I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all...I believe we would be happier to go back to simpler living and more direct thinking. 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. There are no hothouse blossoms that can compare in beauty and fragrance with my bouquet of wild flowers.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

February, 1998
Laura Ingalls Wilder was born on February 7, 1867 in Wisconsin
Almanzo James Wilder was born on February 13, 1857 in New York.

The quote is taken from "Little House In The Big Woods," page 97

Then Pa gave her a little wooden man he had whittled out of a stick, to be company for Charlotte. Ma gave her five little cakes, one for each year that Laura had lived with her and Pa. And Mary gave her a new dress for Charlotte. Mary had made the dress herself, when Laura thought she was sewing on her patchwork quilt...

Laura Ingalls Wilder

January,1998
Blessed New Year!
(Charles Philip Ingalls and daughter, Mary Amelia Ingalls, share the same birthday of January 10th)

The quote is taken from "By The Shores of Silver Lake," page 204-205

...That was the New Year's dinner. It was light but filling. There was something fashionable about it because it was so odd and new...Afterward they sat talking in the little house, with the soft air coming in and beyond the open door, the brown prairie stretching far away and the soft blue sky curving down to meet it.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

December,1997
Happy Holidays!

The quote is taken from "Little House On The Prairie," page 252

Then Pa and Ma and Mr. Edwards sat by the fire and talked about Christmas times back in Tennessee and up north in the Big Woods. But Mary and Laura looked at their beautiful cakes and played with their pennies and drank water out of their new cups. And little by little they licked and sucked their sticks of candy, till each stick was sharp-pointed on one end.

That was a happy Christmas.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

November,1997

The quote is taken from "Little House In The Big Woods," page 237-238

When the fiddle had stopped singing Laura called out softly, "What are the 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 looked at Pa sitting on the bench by the hearth, the fire-light gleaming on his brown hair and beard and glistening on the honey-brown fiddle. She looked at Ma, gently rocking and knitting.

She thought to herself, "This is now."

She was glad that the cosy house, and Pa and Ma and the fire-light 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

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