'Wild Apples' is an essay written by Henry David Thoreau that shows his lamentations about the destruction of the local wild apple species. Henry David Thoreau is an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher, who is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.