Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilderwas an American writer known for the Little House on the Prairie series of children's novelsbased on her childhood in a settler family...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAutobiographer
Date of Birth7 February 1867
CityPepin, WI
CountryUnited States of America
lying heart sweetness-of-life
The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
beautiful eye thinking
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.
kindness helping make-you-happy
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.
men sweat bread
There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
rain hammers hook
She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!
spring years space
The incurable optimism of the farmer who throws his seed on the ground every spring, betting it and his time against the elements, seemed inextricably to blend with the creed of her pioneer forefathers that "it is better farther on"-- only instead of farther on in space, it was farther on in time, over the horizon of the years ahead instead of the far horizon of the west.
white house littles
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.
girl baby grandmother
A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.
cousin horse easter
But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
eye fever blind
Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
tables-and-chairs house needs
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.
baby grace fever
Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.
play two summertime
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.
sky white lakes
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.