The Conversation

Fri Mar 8

Thoreau's great insight for the Anthropocene: Wildness is an attitude, not a place

Written by Robert M. Thorson, Professor of Geology, University of Connecticut

Henry David Thoreau lived at 255 Main Street in Concord, Massachusetts from 1850 until his death in 1862.John Phelan/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA

When Americans quote writer and naturalist Henry David Thoreau, they often reach for his assertion that “In Wildness is the preservation of the world.” This phrase elicited little response when Thoreau...

Thoreau's great insight for the Anthropocene: Wildness is an attitude, not a place

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