Wednesday, May 8, 2013

The civility of one's ancestors I.


May 8.

A long row of elms just set out by Wheeler from his gate to the old Lee place. The planting of so long a row of trees which are so stately and may endure so long deserves to be recorded. In many localities a much shorter row, or even a few scattered trees, set out sixty or a hundred years since, is the most conspicuous as well as interesting relic of the past in sight. Nothing more proves the civility of one's ancestors.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, May 8, 1853

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