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    Wild Apples
    Wild Apples
    Wild Apples
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    Wild Apples

    By 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 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Big Nest
    Release dateMay 15, 2016
    ISBN9781911429203
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    Henry David Thoreau

    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American author and naturalist. A leading figure of Transcendentalism, he is best remembered for Walden, an account of the two years he spent living in a cabin on the north shore of Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, and for Civil Disobedience, an essay that greatly influenced the abolitionist movement and the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.

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      Wild Apples - Henry David Thoreau

      Henry David Thoreau

      Henry David Thoreau

      Wild Apples

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      Contents

      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.

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