Nov 18, 2008

Famous Quotes | It appears that I saw about a...

It appears that I saw about a dozen plants which had accompanied man as far into the woods as Chesuncook, and had naturalized themselves there, in 1853. Plants begin thus early to spring by the side of a logging-path,—a mere vista through the woods, which can only be used in the winter, on account of the stumps and fallen trees,—which are at length are the roadside plants in old settlements. The pioneers of such are planted in part by the first cattle, which cannot be summered in the woods. - Henry David Thoreau Attribution: Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. “Appendix” (1864) in The Maine Woods (1864), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 3, p. 335, Houghton Mifflin (1906).

Categories: Author, Ecology, Naturalist, Philosopher