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“If you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.’”

Misattributed to Thoreau by readers of Stewart Udall’s The Quiet Crisis (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963) in which Udall wrote on page 190 regarding Thoreau: “To those who complain of the complexity of modern life, he might reply, ‘If you want inner peace find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.’”

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