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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts. He spent time as a school teacher after attending Harvard College but was dismissed for his refusal to administer corporal punishment. In 1845, wanting to write his first book, he moved to Walden Pond and built his cabin on land owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It was during his time at Walden that Thoreau was imprisoned briefly for not paying taxes; this experience became the basis for his well-known essay "Civil Disobedience." He died of tuberculosis in 1862 at the age of 44.
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Wild Apples - Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
angel1.jpgHenry David Thoreau
Wild Apples
Published by Adelphi Press
This edition first published in 2016
Copyright © 2016 Adelphi Press
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ISBN: 9781911429203
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WILD APPLES
WILD APPLES
THE HISTORY OF THE APPLE-TREE.
It is remarkable how closely the history of the Apple-tree is connected with that of man. The geologist tells us that the order of the Rosaceae, which includes the Apple, also the true Grasses, and the Labiatae, or Mints, were introduced only a short time previous to the appearance of man on the globe.
It appears that apples made a part of the food of that unknown primitive people whose traces have lately been found at the bottom of the Swiss lakes, supposed to be older than the foundation of Rome, so old that they had no metallic implements. An entire black and shrivelled Crab-Apple has been recovered from their stores.
Tacitus says of the ancient Germans that they satisfied their hunger with wild apples, among other things.
Niebuhr[1] observes that the words for a house, a field, a plough, ploughing, wine, oil, milk, sheep, apples, and others relating to agriculture and the gentler ways of life, agree in Latin and Greek, while the Latin words for all objects pertaining to war or the chase are utterly alien from the Greek.
Thus the apple-tree may be considered a symbol of peace no less than the olive.
[1] A German historical critic of ancient life.
The apple was early so important, and so generally distributed, that its name traced to its root in many languages signifies fruit in general. Maelon (Melon), in Greek, means an apple, also the fruit of other trees, also a sheep and any cattle, and finally riches in general.
The apple-tree has been celebrated by the Hebrews, Greeks, Romans, and Scandinavians. Some have thought that the first human pair were tempted by its fruit. Goddesses are fabled to have contended for it, dragons were set to watch it, and heroes were employed to pluck it.[2]
[2] The Greek myths especially referred to are The Choice of Paris and The Apples of the Hesperides.
The tree is mentioned in at least three places in the Old Testament, and its fruit in two or three more. Solomon sings, As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons.
And again, Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples.
The noblest part of man’s noblest feature is named from this fruit, the apple of the eye.
The apple-tree