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John Bunker Quotes

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John Bunker is an American orchardist, pomologist, and "apple explorer," an expert on American apples and their history. For most of his life, he has worked to preserve rare old apple varieties from across Maine and the New England region.

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I like to think apples in Maine should be like cheeses in France, where you go 10 miles and you get a whole new cheese. In Maine there should be a different cider and apple in every town or county

I don’t consider myself to be better than anybody else for doing it. It’s just that it’s something I CAN do to be of value while I’m here.

Bunker said between the end of the Civil War and the turn of the 20th century, "Almost every county from here to Georgia had its own special apples that were unique to that area. And certainly every town had its own unique mix of apples people would grow. I think more and more Americans are seeing that the one-size-fits-all approach is a worn-out model."

I felt like these trees I was finding in my town, and then eventually all over Maine and other places, were a gift to me by someone whom I had never met, who had no idea who I was, who had no idea that I was ever going to be.

Where we are is our heritage.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Bunker (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.