11.17.2013

oxen
...Thoreau's Journal: 17-Nov-1853

Are not more birds crushed under the feet of oxen than of horses?

2 comments:

michael jameson said...

slow and steady wins the race?,thinking something is to cumbersome and slow has crushed a lot of cars by trains!.

Tom Cubb said...

Oxen were used to till the land, pull out tree stumps, etc, destroying the habitat birds...