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Posted by Tim B from MA on December 27, 2005 at 07:05:17 from (64.30.77.78):
As a Christmas present to me, my wife framed one of my favorite passages, which I though many of you would enjoy. It is the opening paragraphs of Aldo Leopold’s “Good Oak” from his classic collection “A Sand County Almanac”. Good Oak There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace. To avoid the first danger, one should plant a garden, preferably where there is no grocer to confuse the issue. To avoid the second, he should lay a split of good oak on the andirons, preferably where there is no furnace, and let it warm his shins while a February blizzard tosses the trees outside. If one has cut, split, hauled, and piled his own good oak, and let his mind work the while, he will remember much about where the heat comes from, and with a wealth of detail denied to those who spend the weekend in town astride a radiator.
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