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This is the nature of human energy; individuals generate it, and control it. Each person is self-controlling, and therefore responsible for his acts. Every human being, by his nature, is free. -xii.

Rose Wilder Lane

I somehow always have this idea that as soon as I can get through this work that's piled up ahead of me, I'll really write a beautiful thing. But I never do. I always have the idea that someday, somehow, I'll be living a beautiful life.

Rose Wilder Lane

History is nothing whatever but a record of what living persons have done in the past.

Rose Wilder Lane

Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. There is something under our feet, the taken-for-granted. A table is a table, food is food, we are we—because we don't question these things. And science is the enemy because it is the questioner. Faith saves our souls alive by giving us a universe of the taken-for-granted.

Rose Wilder Lane

The prairies were dust. Day after day, summer after summer, the scorching winds blew the dust and the sun was brassy in a yellow sky. Crop after crop failed. Again and again the barren land must be mortgaged for taxes and food and next year's seed. The agony of hope ended when there was not harvest and no more credit, no money to pay interest and taxes; the banker took the land. Then the bank failed.

Rose Wilder Lane

Rose Wilder Lane

Rose Wilder Lane

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Born: December 5, 1886

Died: October 30, 1968 (aged 81)

Bio: Rose Wilder Lane was an American journalist, travel writer, novelist, and political theorist and the daughter of American writer Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Known for:

Young Pioneers (1932)
The discovery of freedom (1943)
Free Land (1938)
Diverging roads (1919)
The Making Of Herbert Hoover (1920)

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