Who is John Chapman ( from The Botany of Desire and what is their importance?

Chapman held no romantic inclinations, was apparently devoid of sexual desire, felt that using animals for labor or convenience was wrong and apparently believed that grafting apple cultivars perverted nature's grand design. He preferred life outdoors to life indoors and reportedly often lived in logs, caves or hollow stumps in preference to a more-typical dwelling. Even so, Chapman was wealthy and possessed extensive land holdings. He traditionally went barefoot, wore a tin pot as a hat and dressed in a sort of burlap overcoat tied at the waist.