"A farmer tells me: "You cannot live on plant food alone, because there is nothing in it from which bones can be built up"; therefore, he devotes a part of his day with an almost religious devotion to supplying his body with the raw material necessary for the building up of bones, and while he thus teaches, all the time you walk behind his oxen, who cheerfully pull him and his heavy plow forward with their bones built from plant food.
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Author
Henry David ThoreauAll Translations
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A farmer tells me: "You cannot live on plant food alone, because there is nothing in it from which bones can be built up"; therefore, he devotes a part of his day with an almost religious devotion to supplying his body with the raw material necessary for the building up of bones, and while he thus teaches, all the time you walk behind his oxen, who cheerfully pull him and his heavy plow forward with their bones built from plant food.
""Egy farmer azt mondja nekem: „Nem élhet csupán növényi táplálékkal, mert abban nincsen semmi, amiből a csont fölépülhet"; ezért napja egy részét szinte vallásos áhítattal annak szenteli, hogy szervezetét ellássa a csontok fölépítéséhez szükséges nyersanyaggal, s miközben ekképpen oktat, egész idő alatt ökrei mögött lépked, akik növényi táplálékból épült csontjaikkal vígan húzzák előre őt magát meg súlyos ekéjét."