Wild Apples And Other Natural History Essays

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780820326368

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Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1774419750

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Wild Apples by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

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
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781557091307

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Wild Apples by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798627602493

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Wild Apples by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

"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 : Gibbs Smith
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781423622284

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Natural History Essays (hb) by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

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 : Grace MacGowan Cooke
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1330905172

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Wild Apples by Grace MacGowan Cooke Pdf

Excerpt from Wild Apples: A California Story When he got into the room, there was his mother looking very queer and excited - but very handsome, too. She called him over to her and took hold of his arm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Henry Daved Thoreau
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1519507445

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Walking/ Wild Apples (Annotated) by Henry Daved Thoreau Pdf

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
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 151931051X

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Wild Apples (Annotated) by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

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 : Andrew Blauner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691247953

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Now Comes Good Sailing by Andrew Blauner Pdf

From twenty-seven of today’s leading writers, an anthology of original pieces on the author of Walden Features essays by Jennifer Finney Boylan • Kristen Case • George Howe Colt • Gerald Early • Paul Elie • Will Eno • Adam Gopnik • Lauren Groff • Celeste Headlee • Pico Iyer • Alan Lightman • James Marcus • Megan Marshall • Michelle Nijhuis • Zoë Pollak • Jordan Salama • Tatiana Schlossberg • A. O. Scott • Mona Simpson • Stacey Vanek Smith • Wen Stephenson • Robert Sullivan • Amor Towles • Sherry Turkle • Geoff Wisner • Rafia Zakaria • and a cartoon by Sandra Boynton The world is never done catching up with Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), the author of Walden, “Civil Disobedience,” and other classics. A prophet of environmentalism and vegetarianism, an abolitionist, and a critic of materialism and technology, Thoreau even seems to have anticipated a world of social distancing in his famous experiment at Walden Pond. In Now Comes Good Sailing, twenty-seven of today’s leading writers offer wide-ranging original pieces exploring how Thoreau has influenced and inspired them—and why he matters more than ever in an age of climate, racial, and technological reckoning. Here, Lauren Groff retreats from the COVID-19 pandemic to a rural house and writing hut, where, unable to write, she rereads Walden; Pico Iyer describes how Thoreau provided him with an unlikely guidebook to Japan; Gerald Early examines Walden and the Black quest for nature; Rafia Zakaria reflects on solitude, from Thoreau’s Concord to her native Pakistan; Mona Simpson follows in Thoreau’s footsteps at Maine’s Mount Katahdin; Jennifer Finney Boylan reads Thoreau in relation to her experience of coming out as a trans woman; Adam Gopnik traces Thoreau’s influence on the New Yorker editor E. B. White and his book Charlotte’s Web; and there’s much more. The result is a lively and compelling collection that richly demonstrates the countless ways Thoreau continues to move, challenge, and provoke readers today.

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 150289405X

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Walking / Wild Apples by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015088080935

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Nineteenth Century Prose by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1989708420

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Walking/Wild Apples by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

This Henry David Thoreau volume is a compilation of two classic Thoreau titles, "Walking" and "Wild Apples." Walking, or sometimes referred to as "The Wild", is based on a lecture by Henry David Thoreau first delivered at the Concord Lyceum on April 23, 1851. Wild Apples, another nature classic is subtitled, "The History of the Apple Tree" Walking, or sometimes referred to as "The Wild", is a lecture by Henry David Thoreau first delivered at the Concord Lyceum on April 23, 1851. It was written between 1851 and 1860, but parts were extracted from his earlier journals. Thoreau read the piece a total of ten times, more than any other of his lectures. "Walking" was first published as an essay in the Atlantic Monthly after his death in 1862. It's considered it one of his seminal works, so much so, that he once wrote of the lecture, "I regard this as a sort of introduction to all that I may write hereafter." Walking is a Transcendental essay in which Thoreau talks about the importance of nature to mankind, and how people cannot survive without nature, physically, mentally, and spiritually, yet we seem to be spending more and more time entrenched by society. For Thoreau walking is a self-reflective spiritual act that occurs only when you are away from society, that allows you to learn about who you are, and find other aspects of yourself that have been chipped away by society. "Walking" is an important canon in the transcendental movement that would lay the foundation for his best known work, Walden. Along with Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature, and George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature, it has become one of the most important essays in the Transcendentalist movement.

Author : Jannika Bock
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Music and philosophy
ISBN : 363158413X

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Concord in Massachusetts, Discord in the World by Jannika Bock Pdf

«Reading Thoreau's Journal, I discover any idea I've ever had worth its salt, » notes the American composer John Cage in 1968. Upon reading the words of nineteenth-century nature philosopher Henry Thoreau, Cage is immediately fascinated with the Transcendentalist's ideas, in particular his views on music and silence. Recognizing his own beliefs in Thoreau's writings, Cage began to rely heavily on the thoughts of the nineteenth-century man and implement them as the basis for his own compositions - both musical and written. Drawing on the complete oeuvres of Cage's and Thoreau's written works, this book surveys the intertextual relation between the writings of the two men. In the juxtaposition of these authors' aesthetics, this book reveals surprising overlaps in the thoughts of Cage and Thoreau.

Author : Louise Westling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107029927

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The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment by Louise Westling Pdf

This authoritative collection of rigorous but accessible essays investigates the exciting new interdisciplinary field of environmental literary criticism.

Author : Rosemary Scanlon McTier
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476600277

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"An Insect View of Its Plain" by Rosemary Scanlon McTier Pdf

During the nineteenth century, insects became a very fashionable subject of study, and the writing of the day reflected this popularity. However, despite an increased contemporary interest in ecocriticism and cultural entomology, scholars have largely ignored the presence of insects in nineteenth-century literature. This volume addresses that critical gap by exploring the cultural and literary position of insects in the work of Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, and John Muir. It examines the beliefs these authors share about the nature of our connection to insects and what insects have to teach about creation and our place in it. An important contribution to both ecocriticism and literary entomology, this work contributes much to the understanding of Thoreau, Dickinson, and Muir as nature writers, natural scientists, entomologists, and botanists, and their intimate and highly spiritual relationships with nature.