Thursday, July 1, 2010

Quote

One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.  ~Henry David Thoreau

2 comments:

Alex said...

Oxen have rumens.

And thoreau took the train to Boston every weekend. what does he really know? He was all talk.

JenB said...

Thoreau was brilliant.

And congratulations on sharing the first negative comment on my blog. :)