“Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.”

— Henry David Thoreau , book Walking

Walking (June 1862)

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1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitio… 1817–1862

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