tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post6961893243736273626..comments2024-03-14T01:33:48.461-04:00Comments on <b>Rock Piles</b>: Some Thoreau quotespwaxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16647940752050937588noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-84822328968915919092014-11-15T09:12:07.321-05:002014-11-15T09:12:07.321-05:00DHT's buddy's inspirational "crude&qu...DHT's buddy's inspirational "crude" stone wall:<br />http://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-crude-wall-in-concord-ma.htmlTim MacSweeneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517237193572593390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-84975630437016550222014-11-15T08:54:31.616-05:002014-11-15T08:54:31.616-05:00I sometimes see well-preserved walls running strai...I sometimes see well-preserved walls running straight through the midst of high & old woods—built of course when the soil was cultivated many years ago—and am surprised to see slight stones still lying one upon another as the builder placed them while this huge oak has grown up from a chance acorn on the soil.<br />—Henry David Thoreau, Journals, 9 November 1850<br />http://Tim MacSweeneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517237193572593390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-79109489808590412742014-11-15T08:19:52.958-05:002014-11-15T08:19:52.958-05:00"Most men would feel insulted, if it were pro..."Most men would feel insulted, if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now." Life Without Principle (1863)<br />"The Indian...stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But Tim MacSweeneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517237193572593390noreply@blogger.com