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Wild Apples

Name: Wild Apples
Author: Henry David Thoreau
ISBN: 9781438526652

by Henry David Thoreau

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Overview

Large Format for easy reading. Begun as a lecture, and published posthumously. Thoreau saw the apple as a perfect mirror of man and eloquently laments where they are both heading. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism.

Synopsis

Wild 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.

About the Author, Henry David Thoreau

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live," Henry David Thoreau once observed. The American poet, essayist and philosopher certainly held himself to that standard -- living out the tenets of Transcendentalism, recounting the experience in his masterpiece, Walden (1854), and passionately advocating human rights and civil liberties in the famous essay, Civil Disobedience (1849).