I’ve just uploaded a video showing the scythe mower I’ve written about before in action, in the Glade at Century Wood.
Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau died 158 years ago today, on 6th May 1862, at the young age of 44. Tuberculosis finally carried him off 17 years after the spring of 1845 when he built his cabin in the woods by Walden Pond. His works are full of quotable passages, and I picked one suited to the current lockdown:
We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion.
(Walden, Ch 1, “Economy”)