Essay•Nature Writing•Natural History
Wild Apples
Henry David Thoreau(1862)
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Pages: 20
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0-14-043697-6
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Thoreau's essay on wild apples as a metaphor for the untamed spirit of nature and humanity.
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It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
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Henry David Thoreau
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It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
The era of the Wild Apple will soon be past. It is a fruit which will probably become extinct in New England.
Our wild apple is wild only like myself, perchance, who belong not to the aboriginal race here, but have strayed into the woods from the cultivated stock.
The fruit of the wild apple, though it may be acrid and crabbed, has the spice of a hundred orchards in it.