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In wildness is the preservation of the world.   Thoreau, Henry David

Excerpt from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 56, June, 1862 · This quote is tagged Wilderness · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.

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A little bit about Thoreau, Henry David

Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 - 1862) was an American essayist, poet, and naturalist. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism. · Can we improve this biography? Post your version

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