Wild Apples And Other Natural History Essays
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Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2010-04-15 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0820326364 |
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This volume of seven essays and a late lecture by Henry David Thoreau makes available important material written both before and after Walden. First appearing in the 1840s through the 1860s, the essays were written during a time of great change in Thoreau's environs, as the Massachusetts of his childhood became increasingly urbanized and industrialized. William Rossi's introduction puts the essays in the context of Thoreau's other major works, both chronologically and intellectually. Rossi also shows how these writings relate to Thoreau's life and career as both writer and naturalist: his readings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Charles Darwin; his failed bid for commercial acceptance of his work; and his pivotal encounter with the utter wildness of the Maine woods. In the essays themselves, readers will see how Thoreau melded conventions of natural history writing with elements of two popular literary forms--travel writing and landscape writing--to explore concerns ranging from America's westward expansion to the figural dimensions of scientific facts and phenomena. Thoreau the thinker, observer, wanderer, and inquiring naturalist--all emerge in this distinctive composite picture of the economic, natural, and spiritual communities that left their marks on one of our most important early environmentalists.
Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : Gibbs Smith |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2011-04 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1423622286 |
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Celebrate the tradition of literary naturalists and writers who embrace the natural world as the setting for some of our most euphoric and serious experiences. These books map the intimate connections between the human and the natural world. Literary naturalists transcend political boundaries, social concerns, and historical milieus; they speak for what Henry Beston called the "other nations" of the planet. Their message acquires more weight and urgency as wild places become increasingly scarce.
Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-06-10 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781774419755 |
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This Henry David Thoreau classic is called Wild Apples. It is a venerable Henry David Thoreau work, subtitled "The History of the Apple Tree," and it stands as a classic among natural history essays. This Thoreau essay contains the following excerpt: "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."
Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : Applewood Books |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1557091307 |
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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.
Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2020-03-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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"Wild Apples, The History of the Apple Tree by Henry David Thoreau, first published in 1862. Thoreau's essay begins with a history of the apple tree, and ends with a meditation on parallels between the wild apple and humanity. The essay were written during a time of great change in Thoreau's environs, as the Massachusetts (USA) of his childhood became increasingly urbanized and industrialized." ----- "Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) was an American author, essayist, poet, philosopher, naturalist, surveyor, historian and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden (1854). He was deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay."
Author | : Grace MacGowan Cooke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : |
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Julian McCulloch finds that in his search for new values and love that he must break with his parents. A novel of the conflicts of maturing adolescence set in Contra Costa County, California.
Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 2015-11-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781519310514 |
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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.
Author | : Henry Daved Thoreau |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2015-11-25 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781519507440 |
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I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil--to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization: the minister and the school committee and every one of you will take care of that.
Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2014-10-19 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781502894052 |
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I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil--to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization: the minister and the school committee and every one of you will take care of that.
Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2001-03-06 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780393321159 |
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Thoreau presents information about the "'unnoticed wild berry whose beauty annually lends a new charm to some wild walk, '" along with what "may be considered Thoreau's last will and testament, in which he protests our desecration of the landscape, reflects on the importance of preserving wild space 'for instruction and recreation, ' and envisions a new American scripture."--Jacket.