Wild Apples - Henry David Thoreau - Bog

Wild Apples is a collection of essays by Henry David Thoreau, first published in 1862. The book explores Thoreau's fascination with the natural world, particularly with wild apples and the trees that produce them. Thoreau reflects on the history and mythology of apples, as well as their place in American culture. He also muses on the relationship between humans and nature, and the ways in which we can learn from the natural world. The essays are written in Thoreau's signature style, which is both poetic and philosophical. The book is a celebration of nature and a call to appreciate the beauty and complexity of the world around us.So much for the more civilized apple-trees (urbaniores, as Pliny calls them). I love better to go through the old orchards of ungrafted apple-trees, at whatever season of the year, --so irregularly planted: sometimes two trees standing close together; and the rows so devious that you would think that they not only had grown while the owner was sleeping, but had been set out by him in a somnambulic state. The rows of grafted fruit will never tempt me to wander amid them like these. But I now, alas, speak rather from memory than from any recent experience, such ravages have been made!This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work