Thoreau, one of the greatest journal keepers of all time offered up one of my favorite quotes, "A ripe berry never reaches Boston." I went looking for it today.

Date:   5/2/2006 9:28:53 AM ( 18 y ago)

If you went back about 150 years
and imagined there was a Curezone
or that one of the greatest Journal keepers
of all time had a Blog, you would be,
in my opinion, enjoy the exquisite
Soul Rapsodies and daily writings
of Henry David Thoreau.

I was reminded of the the resonance
of his word that send me into ecstacy
as I searched for
a favorite Throeau quote.

My sense now is, Thoreau may not have said this
exactly. I was working for Dr. Bernard Jensen
and living a very Walden-like existence
back in 1972. I loved the book "Walden."
I repeated this thought to Dr. Jensen, and then,
he, one of the greatest charismatic speakers I have
known, shortened the line to this one.

"A ripe berry never reaches Boston."

It was Dr. Jensen, via his ghostwriter, Leslie here,
who took this line from Thoreau, and transformed it
a bit. with the help of my spiritual father
Dr. Jensen.

I may be wrong, but that now, is my sense of it.
I cannot find those exact words attributed to Henry
David Thoreau, an author I highly recommend to
any blogger. His book, "Walden" was the summation
of his Journals, his daily Blog, so to speak.

So take heart, dear Curezoners, if you edit what you have
written here, it may well end up on the shelves 100 years
from now.

Here is the closest to this quote I can find
to "A ripe berry never reaches Boston!"
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/thoreau/walden/chapter09....


Chapter IX: The Ponds

SOMETIMES, having had a surfeit of human society and gossip,
and worn out all my village friends,
I rambled still farther westward than I habitually dwell,
into yet more unfrequented parts of the town,
"to fresh woods and pastures new,"
or, while the sun was setting, made my supper
of huckleberries and blueberries on Fair Haven Hill,
and laid up a store for several days.

The fruits do not yield their true flavor to the purchaser of them,
nor to him who raises them for the market.
There is but one way to obtain it,
yet few take that way.
If you would know the flavor of huckleberries,
ask the cow-boy or the partridge. I
t is a vulgar error to suppose that you have tasted huckleberries
who never plucked them.

A huckleberry never reaches Boston;
they have not been known there since they grew on her three hills. The ambrosial and essential part of the fruit
is lost with the bloom which is rubbed off in the market cart,
and they become mere provender.
As long as Eternal Justice reigns,
not one innocent huckleberry can be transported
thither from the country's hills.

Here are the Thoreau's Journal entries
for August 1837:

http://hdt.typepad.com/henrys_blog/2005/08/index.html

Do you not feel the fruit of your spring and summer
beginning to ripen, to harden its seed within you?
Do not your thoughts begin to acquire consistency
as well as flavor and ripeness?
How can we expect a harvest of thought
who have not had a seed-time of character?
Already some of my small thoughts - fruit of my spring life -
are ripe, like the berries which feed the first broods of birds;
and other some are prematurely ripe and bright,
like the lower leaves of the herbs which have felt
the summer’s drought.

Organic Conversion,
The Power in an Organic Strawberry
transformed Anthony Zolezzi's Life:

http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=1517

Strawberry Survey:
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=1577

Herbicides on Strawberries:
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=1585

Strawberries as Aprodisiacs:
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=1589

Garden Magic!
Preliminary Results
of my experience bringing
Super Ripe, Locally Grown
Organic Strawberries into Whole
Foods Market are reported here:
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=1587

The story starts here:
Religious Experience at Whole Foods Market:
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=1558



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