![]() In his 1862 essay “Wild Apples,” Thoreau voiced his lament for the destruction of the wild apple most vividly. ![]() Of all the subjects he investigated in the natural world, few engaged Thoreau’s heart and mind as the fate of indigenous and wild apple species. One of his late essays, for example, “The Succession of Trees,” is a solid analysis of how forests regenerate after fire or human destruction, through dispersal by seed-bearing winds or animals. Once dismissed as amateurish pursuits, these essays found a new audience and gained credibility as the environmental movement gained momentum in the 1970s. In his later years Henry David Thoreau took an intense interest in natural history and wrote several impassioned, and informed, essays relating to observations he recorded in a series of notebooks. That should be the ‘going’ price of apples.’ The History of the Apple-Tree Let the most beautiful or the swiftest have it. ‘Surely the apple is the noblest of fruits. ![]()
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