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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

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Names, West
"Walking" (1862)
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