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From Jason Mark’s Satellites in the High Country:  “When I think about wildness as a civic good, Thoreau’s famous dictum—”in wildness is the preservation of the world”—takes on yet another layer of meaning. Perhaps it was not written by Thoreau the naturalist or Thoreau the poet. Perhaps instead it was written by Thoreau the tax-resister,Continue reading “FOUR HUNDRED AND TWENTY THREE”