...frustrating proximity with crowds of other people? More than a century ago, Henry David Thoreau declared, "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion." His solitary "pumpkin-sitting" at Walden Pond — then serene, natural, and relatively untouched by...
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. 
