| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 33690 |
| QUOTATION: | Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. There is something under our feet, the taken-for-granted. A table is a table, food is food, we are we—because we don’t question these things. And science is the enemy because it is the questioner. Faith saves our souls alive by giving us a universe of the taken-for-granted. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968), U.S. author. As quoted in The Ghost in the Little House, ch. 7, by William V. Holtz (1993).
From a 1923 journal entry. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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