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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

What a beautiful world this is! Have you noticed the wonderful coloring of the sky at sunrise? For me there is no time like the early morning, when the spirit of light broods over the earth at its awakening. What glorious colors in the woods these days! Did you ever think that great painters have spent their lives trying to reproduce on canvas what we may see every day? Thousands of dollars are paid for their pictures which are not so beautiful as those nature gives us freely. The colors in the sky at sunset, the delicate tints of  the early spring foliage, the brilliant autumn leaves, the softly colored grasses and lovely flowers– what painter ever equalled their beauties with paint and brush?

Laura’s Sunset (Viewed from Rocky Ridge Farm)

Excerpt from “An Autumn Day” by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Missouri Ruralist, October 20, 1916

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One response to “A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words”

  1. Laura

    Laura’s words say it all…

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