Natural History

Wild Apples

by Henry David Thoreau

One of the essays Thoreau readied for the press in his last months, printed in The Atlantic Monthly in November 1862, after his death. It praises the small, sour apples of wild trees in old pastures above anything grown in an orchard, so long as they are eaten out of doors, in the October air. Read it in the autumn, with an apple from a hedge.

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Reading time

About 40 minutes

Where to find it

Walden Pond

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #4066. In the public domain in the United States.