I wished to have leisure to read; I liked to work with my ha... - Harriet Martineau

"I wished to have leisure to read; I liked to work with my hands; I had a love of nature."

Harriet Martineau Nature

Sociologist Writer British 1802–1876

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"If we would have anything of value, we must earn it by labor."

"I am naturally a dissenter and a rebel, and I have my own thoughts."

"The true object of education should be to make people not merely docile, but free."

"No one can be really free while bound by debt."

"Nature teaches us about beauty."

"Nature teaches us patience and wisdom"

"Sometimes it snows in April."

"Every town has a soul, and Twin Peaks has a troubled one."