Concordance for Walden by Thoreau, Henry David

    his roots upward to the sun, don't let him have
 a fibre in the shade, if you do he'll turn himself t'other side up and
 be as green as a leek in two days. A long war, not with cranes, but
 with weeds, those Trojans who had sun and rain and dews on their side.
 Daily the beans saw me come to their rescue armed with a hoe, and thin
 the ranks of their enemies, filling up the trenches with weedy dead.
 Many a lusty crest- waving Hector, that towered a whole foot above his
 crowding comrades, fell before my weapon and rolled in the dust.
   Those summer days which some of my contemporaries devoted to the
 fine arts in Boston or Rome, and others to contemplation in India, and
 others to trade in London or New York, I thus, with the other
 farmers of New England, devoted to husbandry. Not that I wanted
 beans to eat, for I am by nature a Pythagorean, so far as beans are
 concerned, whether they mean porridge or voting, and exchanged them
 for rice; but, perchance, as some