Pine Grove Furnace

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    “When the chopper would praise a pine, he will commonly tell you that the one he cut was so big that a yoke of oxen stood on its stump; as if that were what the pine had grown for, to become the footstool of oxen.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “He was burned, so he ran into the bamboo grove, but the grove caught fire.”
    —Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.

    “What the hammer?What the chain?
    In what furnace was thy brain?
    What the anvil?What dread grasp
    Dare its deadly terrors clasp?”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)