Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others savage or barbarous, so my field was, though not in a bad sense, a half-cultivated field. They were beans cheerfully returning to their wild and primitive state that I cultivated, and my hoe played the Ranz des Vaches for them.


The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: With Bibliographical Introductions and Full Indexes (ed. 1894)

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others...

Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others...

Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others...

Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others...