in Thoreau’s Journal:

Many of our days should be spent, not in vain expectations and lying on our oars, but in carrying out deliberatively and faithfully the hundred little purposes which every man’s genius must have suggested to him. Let not your life be without an object, thought it be only to ascertain the flavor of a cranberry, for it will not only be the flavor of an insignificant berry that you will have tasted, but the flavor of your life to that extent, and it will be such a sauce as no wealth can buy.

Photo: August 30, 2017 at Chicks Corner, Sandwich, NH