It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit not a fossil earth, but a living earth compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic.
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