- Harriet Oleson: The two of us together under the wilderness sky... Ah... Just think of it!
- Nels Oleson: I am.
- Nels Oleson: The way she's always fussing over the children all the time... She's wants them to have everything she didn't have when she was a child.
- Charles Ingalls: Well, you can't blame her for that.
- Nels Oleson: Oh yes I can. She had everything when she was a child.
- Charles Ingalls: Nels, you're alright!
- [Charles just learned from Nels that Harriet decided to tag along for the camping trip and asked Caroline to meet him in the barn]
- Charles Ingalls: All right, now, I won't do it. I will not go on a trip with that woman.
- Caroline Ingalls: But everybody's ready. We can't just go off and leave her standing here.
- Charles Ingalls: Well, then there won't be any trip. Now you go out, tell them I broke my leg, tell them anything. I'm not gonna go.
- Caroline Ingalls: You'll miss your fishing.
- Charles Ingalls: Fishing? With that woman on the trip, there won't be a fish biting for nine miles in any direction.
- Harriet Oleson: I'll carry the pack with the tea service in it myself.
- Charles Ingalls: Tea service?
- Nels Oleson: That's what I've been trying to tell ya. Harriet decided to come along.
- Charles Ingalls: Caroline, I think we left something in the barn.
- Harriet Oleson: Well, if that isn't just like the Ingalls. Giving their children an unfair advantage.
- Nellie Oleson: Laura and Mary will find all kinds of leaves that nobody can find around here.
- Nels Oleson: I happen to know that Charles has been planning this fishing trip for weeks.
- Harriet Oleson: Well, you certainly don't think that he's going to spend all his time fishing, do you? I happen to know that he sets great store by his children. So he's gonna help them all he can.
- Willie Oleson: Yeah, it's not fair!
- Nels Oleson: Well, I don't know what you expect me to do about it.
- Harriet Oleson: I expect you to find out where they're going. Then take your son... your daughter to the exact same spot.
- Nels Oleson: I can't do that! A man doesn't just intrude on another man's Holiday.
- Harriet Oleson: The forests and the rivers belong to you as much as they do to him.