The final harvest of our great nature writer s last years, Wild Fruits presents Thoreau s distinctly American gospel a sacramental vision of nature in which "the tension between Thoreau the naturalist and Thoreau the missionary for nature s wonders invigorates nearly every page" (Time). In transcribing the 150-year-old manuscript s cryptic handwriting and complex notations, Thoreau specialist Bradley Dean has performed a "heroic feat of decipherment" (Booklist) to bring this great work to light. Readers will discover "passages that reach for the transcendentalist ideal of writing new scriptures, yet grounding this Bible in a vision of practical ecology" (Boston). Beautifully illustrated throughout with line drawings of the natural life Thoreau considers on his walks, Wild Fruits is "well worth any nature lover s attention" (Christian Science Monitor).
亨利•大卫•梭罗（1817—1862），十九世纪美国最具有世界影响力的作家、哲学家、自然主义先驱。他的文章简练有力，朴实自然，富含思想，在美国十九世纪散文中独树一帜，时至今天，仍是抚慰人类心灵的伟大作品。
散文代表作有《瓦尔登湖》、《种子的信仰》和《野果》；论文有《论公民的不服从权利》（又译为《消极抵抗》、《论公民的不服从》）。