5/21/2023 0 Comments Wild apples thoreauThis naturalist focus is exemplified in “Wild Apples,” one of Thoreau’s last essays that was published in the Atlantic Monthly at the height of the Civil War in 1862, also the year of the author’s death. Though Thoreau would emerge physically from the forest in 1847, his later writings show that his mind remained consumed by the natural world, perpetually a degree removed from the political and cultural zeitgeist of the day. The transcendentalist thinker and writer ventured into those woods because he wanted to “live deliberately” and extricate himself from an immoral society. Original illustrations by Lilit MarkosianĪmerica’s favorite recluse, Henry David Thoreau, famously spent two years, two months, and two days in a home of his making by the shores of Walden Pond ― a gentle body of water at the southeast edge of Concord, Massachusetts.
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