Owen Field

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    Dead men may envy living mites in cheese,
    Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys,
    And subdivide, and never come to death.
    —Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)

    Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others savage or barbarous, so my field was, though not in a bad sense, a half-cultivated field. They were beans cheerfully returning to their wild and primitive state that I cultivated, and my hoe played the Ranz des Vaches for them.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)