Against Odds (Classic Reprint): A Personal Narrative of Life in Horse Heaven: A Personal Narrative of Life in Horse Heaven (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Has it occurred to you that we are so fond of a forest, a garden, a park, a farm, because our first parents lived in the most beautiful garden that ever was on earth, during the happiest time of their lives? That is the reason; and when Cain grieved his mother, and when thorns and thistles flourished, and the earth refused to give her increase, our ancestors would sigh, Oh, that we were still in the Garden of Eden 1 Thus it came about that we, too, make this wish, and try to fulfil it by nestling in the bosom of nature, if per chance we can get a little worldly happiness and if it is to be found anywhere, it is found there.

Yet, unconsciously we are also influenced by the time in which we live, and our aims are governed largely by our environments. What wonder, then, if we decide upon this or that step, when the soil of the heart, so to speak, has been prepared by living word or example.

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