The Bean-Field

From Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau's labor cultivating seven miles of bean rows becomes a meditation on husbandry, attachment to the earth, and self-reliance.
Chapter 7: The Bean-Field
I came to love my rows, my beans...They attached me to the earth, and so I got strength like Antaeus.
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