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[h2o-discuss] fair huckleberries
"What sort of country is that where the huckleberry
fields are private property? When I pass such fields
on the highway, my heart sinks within me. I see a
blight on the land. Nature is under a veil there.
I make haste away from the accursed spot. Nothing
could deform her fair face more. I cannot think of
it ever after but as the place where fair and
palatable berries are converted into money, where the
huckleberry is desecrated."
--From "Wild Fruits," by Henry David Thoreau, 1850
posthumous ms. edited by Bradley Dean, to be published
this fall, for the first time, by W. W. Norton.
(with a new copyright that will be converted into money
for many years to come, courtesy of Dean, the New York
Public Library and the Thoreau Institute, www.walden.org)
http://www.cnn.com/books/news/9909/06/new.thoreau.ap/
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