![]() ![]() In wilderness is the preservation of the world. 133: “Perhaps this is behind Thoreau’s dictum: In wildness is the salvation of the world.” The correct quotation comes from Thoreau’s essay, “Walking”: “The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the world.” – This misquotation comes from Aldo Leopold who wrote in A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (London: Oxford University Press, 1949) p. In wildness is the salvation of the world. Misquoted or erroneously attributed to Henry D. ![]() The Thoreau Log: A Digital Documentary Life of Henry D.News from The Walden Woods Project Farm.The Transcendentalists: Their Lives & Writings. ![]()
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