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
almost house laura mary playing slowly stared stopped wagon
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.
evenings grew land ma talked thick western
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.
long house cozy
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.
family home house
If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.
education fit folks
The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
men animal feds
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.
long woods way
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.
people used enjoy
People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.
failure beginnings-and-endings
Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
age eighty
Life begins at eighty.
home gun doors
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.
needs attention panthers
The wilderness needs your whole attention.