[h2o-discuss] fair huckleberries

[Eric Eldred <eldred@mediaone.net>]

"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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