in Thoreau’s Journal:
Now that birds & flowers fall off, fruits take their places and young birds in flocks– What a list of bright colored—sometimes venomous looking berries spot the swamps & copses amid changing leaves! For colors they will surpass the flowers methinks— There is something rare—precious—& gem like about them.
Now is their time & I must attend to them— Some like grapes we gather & eat but the fairest are not edible.