It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is conn

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man. – Henry David Thoreau

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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. – William Hazlitt

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Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals. – John Dewey, Characters and Events

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Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things. – Tony Kushner

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Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. – Margaret Mead

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