Related: "The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance". My favorite passage mentions Henry David Thoreau, who was a pencil maker by trade. Thoreau see

Related: "The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance". My favorite passage mentions Henry David Thoreau, who was a pencil maker by trade. Thoreau seemed to think of everything when he made a list of essential supplies for a twelve-day excursion into the Maine woods... But there is one object that Thoreau neglected to mention, one that he most certainly carried himself... without it he could not make his list. Without a pencil Thoreau would have been lost in the Maine woods. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0679734155/ http://www.amazon.com/dp/0679734155/