"Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the……" — Henry David Thoreau
"Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer thought in bean leaves and blossoms rather than in wormwood and piper and millet grass, making the earth say beans instead of grass, - this was my daily work ...."
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Henry David Thoreau
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