Wild Apples The History Of The Apple Tree
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Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : Applewood Books |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1557091307 |
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 | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-06-10 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781774419755 |
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 | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Miniature books |
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Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2020-03-18 |
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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 | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2023-09-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3387030770 |
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : ICON Group International |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Apples |
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Author | : Andy Brennan |
Publisher | : Chelsea Green Publishing |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2019-06-17 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 1603588450 |
Today, food is being reconsidered. It’s a front-and-center topic in everything from politics to art, from science to economics. We know now that leaving food to government and industry specialists was one of the twentieth century’s greatest mistakes. The question is where do we go from here. Author Andy Brennan describes uncultivation as a process: It involves exploring the wild; recognizing that much of nature is omitted from our conventional ways of seeing and doing things (our cultivations); and realizing the advantages to embracing what we’ve somehow forgotten or ignored. For most of us this process can be difficult, like swimming against the strong current of our modern culture. The hero of this book is the wild apple. Uncultivated follows Brennan’s twenty-four-year history with naturalized trees and shows how they have guided him toward successes in agriculture, in the art of cider making, and in creating a small-farm business. The book contains useful information relevant to those particular fields, but is designed to connect the wild to a far greater audience, skillfully blending cultural criticism with a food activist’s agenda. Apples rank among the most manipulated crops in the world, because not only do farmers want perfect fruit, they also assume the health of the tree depends on human intervention. Yet wild trees live all around us, and left to their own devices, they achieve different forms of success that modernity fails to apprehend. Andy Brennan learned of the health and taste advantages of such trees, and by emulating nature in his orchard (and in his cider) he has also enjoyed environmental and financial benefits. None of this would be possible by following today’s prevailing winds of apple cultivation. In all fields, our cultural perspective is limited by a parallel proclivity. It’s not just agriculture: we all must fight tendencies toward specialization, efficiency, linear thought, and predetermined growth. We have cultivated those tendencies at the exclusion of nature’s full range. If Uncultivated is about faith in nature, and the power it has to deliver us from our own mistakes, then wild apple trees have already shown us the way.
Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-04-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
It is remarkable how closely the history of the Apple-tree is connected with thatof man. The geologist tells us that the order of the Rosaceae, which includes theApple, also the true Grasses, and the Labiatae, or Mints, were introduced only ashort time previous to the appearance of man on the globe.It appears that apples made a part of the food of that unknown primitive peoplewhose traces have lately been found at the bottom of the Swiss lakes, supposed tobe 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 wildapples, 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 gentlerways of life, agree in Latin and Greek, while the Latin words for all objectspertaining to war or the chase are utterly alien from the Greek." Thus the appletree may be considered a symbol of peace no less than the olive
Author | : Michael Pollan |
Publisher | : Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2002-05-28 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0375760393 |
“Pollan shines a light on our own nature as well as on our implication in the natural world.” —The New York Times “A wry, informed pastoral.” —The New Yorker The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. And just as we’ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?
Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2014-11-24 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781503377462 |
Wild Apples A Classic Essay Henry David Thoreau 1862 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 (agrestia poma) among other things. Niebuhr 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 way 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.