Quotation by Henry David Thoreau

Its farmers tell me that thousands of acres are flooded now, since the dams have been erected, where they remember to have seen the white honeysuckle or clover growing once, and they could go dry with shoes only in summer. Now there is nothing but blue-joint and sedge and cut-grass there, standing in water all the year round. For a long time, they made the most of the driest season to get their hay,... but now it is not worth the getting when they can come at it, and they look sadly round to their wood-lots and upland as a last resource.