"See the long view: By all means "plant the corn, milk the cows, and feed the horses" but always keep the eventual "harvest" in mind."

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Every New Englander might easily raise all his own breadstuffs in this land of rye and Indian corn, and not depend on distant andfluctuating markets for them. Yet so far are we from simplicity and independence that, in Concord, fresh and sweet meal is rarely sold in the shops, and hominy and corn in a still coarser form are hardly used by any.

— Henry David Thoreau