Wednesday, July 23, 2003

Henry David Thoreau - Thoreau on Taxes, Huckleberries, 'Civil Disobedience': "'I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour—for the horse was soon tackled—I was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.'"