Wild Apples


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A meditation on apples begins with a short history of the apple tree, tracing its path from ancient Greece to America. Thoreau saw the apple as a perfect mirror of man and eloquently lamented where they both were heading.




The Succession of Forest Trees, and Wild Apples


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The Succession of Forest Trees


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Wild Apples and the Succession of Forest Trees


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Throughout his life Henry David Thoreau was drawn to trees. This volume contains two of his essays on trees. In September 1860 Thoreau presented a lecture "The Succession of Forest Trees," which was later published in the New York Tribune and widely reprinted. His essay "Wild Apples" first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in November 1862.




The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau


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Hyde gathers 13 of Thoreau's finest short prose works and, for the first time in 150 years, presents them fully annotated and arranged in the order of their composition. This definitive edition includes Thoreau's most famous essays.