Avalon, "Isle of the Blessed", is a legendary island famous for its beautiful apples, featured in the Arthurian legend described by Geoffrey of Monmouth in the Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain).


Geoffrey of Monmouth (1100-1135) wrote several works in latin being this the used language of learning and literature in Europe during the medieval period. 

A Classic Waste Of Breath

An argument that a thing is natural, therefore not a cause of concern, is used greatly in modern times, most especially in connection with the arguments over whether or not we puny humans can interfere with natural environmental cycles.  Such arguments can look good on the face of things.

The naturalistic argument goes back at least to Ancient Greece. 

In the art of misleading an audience with a seemingly open-and-shut case it really is a classic.