Tree of Knowledge
The Frontier of Education
There’s a beautiful image of life in Henry David Thoreau’s Wild Apples, a long and circuitous essay that describes his intimate relations with that particular fruit. Wild. What we might call feral. The domesticated fruit is not his subject.
Wild apples first evolved in central Asia, somewhere in the mountains of Kazakhstan. Their journey across Asia and …
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