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On Walden Pond. (Zuckerman and Co.'s plans for an office development in the Walden Woods) (Editorial)

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From: The Nation
Date: 19911028
Author:Lingeman, Richard

Mort Zuckerman's company, Boston Properties, tried to develop an office site in the Walden Woods. The Walden Woods Project wants to buy the property to preserve the historic site. Zuckerman is accused of having sold his interest to Boston Properties Pres Ed Linde.

One of the most widely quoted phrases Henry David Thoreau ever wrote is "in wildness is the preservation of the world." It originally appeared in Walking"' published in the June 1862 issue of The

Atlantic Monthly.

Although Thoreau ceased contributing to the magazine when its first editor, James Russell Lowell, ...

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