Two of my favorite writers are Henry David Thoreau and Laura Ingalls Wilder. Both preferred the simple life.
At his rural cabin in Concord, in the American state of Massachusetts, Thoreau had this sign: I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. And see if I could learn what it had to teach, and not when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Laura once said It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile.… Read more