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Walden Pond. I am told his haunts are little 
changed since the years when he lived there ; and 
I had expected to find Walden Pond a scene of 
much wild beauty, but it was the mildest of wild 
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woods ; it seemed to me as thoroughly civilized and 
social as an Apple orchard. 
Thoreau christened the Apple trees of his acquain- 
tance with appropriate names in the lingua vernacula: 
the Truant’s Apple, the Saunterer’s Apple, Decern- 
