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This page contains quotations either
misquoted or erroneously attributed to Henry D. Thoreau

Misquotations

In wildness is the salvation 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, ) p.

&#;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.”

In wilderness is the preservation 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 appeared in a few minor publications of the first half of the twentieth century b