Louise Dickinson Rich Quotes

• 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

  Giving, People, Wish

  Louise Dickinson Rich (1963). “The forest years: containing in one volume We took to the woods [and] My neck of the woods”

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• 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

  Home, Trying, East

  Louise Dickinson Rich (1964). “State o' Maine”

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• 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

  Life, Nature, Garden

  Louise (Dickinson) Rich (1971). “The peninsula”

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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

  Live Life, People, Secret

  Louise (Dickinson) Rich (1971). “The peninsula”

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• 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

  Air, Nervous, Sunlight

  Louise Dickinson Rich (1963). “The forest years: containing in one volume We took to the woods [and] My neck of the woods”

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