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From: The Nation
Date: 19911028
Author:Trillin, Calvin

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, censored a sentence from another of his essays, he sent several essays to Lowell's successor, James Fields, which were published after his death, in 1862. Certainly he was one of the founding spirits of the magazine, in 1857, along with Emerson and other leading lights ...

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