“A farm is like a very large and extended baby. It takes a great deal of time and very little mentality.” LittlesDealsBabyFarmsMentalityFarming Author:Anne Bosworth Greene
“Fingers get habits - have memories of their own.” HandsMemoriesHabitFingers Author:Anne Bosworth Greene
“Songs are usually unfit for whistling - indeed, whistling (except to the person doing it) is unbearable.” PersonsSongNoiseUnbearableWhistling Author:Anne Bosworth Greene
“I love old moons. There is something humanized about them; they are dulled a little, and rich in color. One can stare all night at an old moon.” LittlesNightRichColorMoonStaringAll Night Author:Anne Bosworth Greene
“November at its best - with a sort of delightful menace in the air.” AirDelightfulNovemberMenace Author:Anne Bosworth Greene
“What a strange joy it was to talk, to fish gleefully into the past and fling its fragments about us, with the unfailing aroma of pleasantness that pasts always seem to possess!” SeemsPastJoyStrangeFishesFragmentsFlingAroma Author:Anne Bosworth Greene
“How different a loved and familiar spot appears, when viewed with the eye of probable guests.” DifferentEyeFamiliarSpotsGuests Author:Anne Bosworth Greene
“the breeze brought us a faint sound, as of a distant rat, a huge and mystic rat, gnawing, maybe, at the horizon!” SoundHugeWeatherHorizonRatsBreezeMystic Author:Anne Bosworth Greene
“The thing one resents about winter is its inactivity; the perpetual sameness of ice-armored hills and snow-blanketed woods. Great things, of course, may be going on underneath; but nature wears a mask, is icily non-committal.” MayCoursesWinterWoodsSnowGreat ThingsIceHillsMaskPerpetualResentSamenessInactivity Author:Anne Bosworth Greene
“But I shall like my battle. This sort of day puts one in mood for it. Plenty of wood in the shed, jam and potatoes and apples in the cellar, hay and oats and Cressy in the barn. Pooh - what is winter?” BattleWinterWoodsMoodPlentyApplesShedPotatoesJamBarnsCellarsHayOats Author:Anne Bosworth Greene