Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Louise Dickinson Rich

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Last updated on November 28, 2024.

Louise Dickinson Rich was a writer known for fiction and non-fiction works about the New England region of the United States, particularly Massachusetts and Maine. Her best-known work was her first book, the autobiographical We Took to the Woods, (1942) set in the 1930s when she and husband Ralph, and her friend and hired help Gerrish, lived in a remote cabin near Umbagog Lake. It was described as "a witty account of a Thoreau-like existence in a wilderness home."

American - Writer | June 14, 1903 - April 9, 1991

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Here the people seem to possess the secret of tranquility and to live lives of more than surface contentment.

Louise Dickinson Rich

We belong to no cult. We are not Nature Lovers. We don't love nature any more than we love breathing. Nature is simply something indispensable, like air and light and water, that we accept as necessary to living, and the nearer we can get to it the happier we are.

Louise Dickinson Rich

There are other things that contribute to health besides a balanced diet. There are fresh air and sunlight and lack of nervous tension.

Louise Dickinson Rich

There is nothing that I so greatly admire as purposefulness. I have an enormous respect for people who know exactly what they are doing and where they are going. Such people are compact and integrated. They have clear edges. They give an impression of invulnerability and balance, and I wish I were one of them.

Louise Dickinson Rich

Mainiacs away from Maine are truly displaced persons, only half alive, only half aware of their immediate surroundings. Their inner attention is always preoccupied and pre-empted by the tiny pinpoint on the face of the globe called Down East. They try to live not in such a manner that they will eventually be welcomed into Paradise, but only so that someday they can go home to Maine.

Louise Dickinson Rich

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Louise Dickinson Rich

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