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)

    “Bees don’t swarm in a mango grove for nothing.
    Where can you see a wisp of smoke
    without a fire?”
    —Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

    “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)