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PROMISED LAND.(protecting wilderness areas in national parks)

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From: National Parks
Date: 19990901
Author:WILKINSON, TODD

THE YEAR WAS 1851. The place: a lecture hall in Concord, Massachusetts, just east of a forest-encircled pond called Walden.

As Henry David Thoreau stood before a room full of contemporaries and recited his now-immortal words--"in wildness is the preservation of the world"--he couldn't have fathomed how strongly the declaration would resonate a century and a half later.

Thoreau's poetic sentiments, describing a rare part of the landscape we know today as "wilderness," has, at the end of the 20th century, become a rallying cry for park advocates who believe that Congress ...

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