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 I'm quite fond of writing the titles of these blogs as plays on famous novels-- Butterflies in the Garage, Flowers in the Attack; Walking Miss Rosie, Driving Miss Daisy. Keeping the articles, changing the main verb and noun. Anyway. This blog post follows the creation of my part of our culminating project for this class. We took a video of our nature spot and voice-overed one of our favorite quotes from this semester. I originally picked two from Henry David Thoreau's Walking, but only one was able to fit in my minute-long video, so I'll share both here.  " When sometimes I am reminded that the mechanics and shopkeepers stay in their shops not only all forenoon but all the afternoon too, sitting . . . I think they deserve some credit for not having all committed suicide long ago." "The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours . . .but is itself an enterprise and adventure ...