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The Henry D. Thoreau Mis-Quotation Page: this page is devoted to those quotations either misquoted or erroneously attributed to Henry D. Thoreau

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Clear Sky, Pure Light: Encounters with Henry David Thoreau compiled from Thoreau's writings by Christopher Childs (Lincoln, MA: The Penmaen Press, 1978)

Words for Nature: Spirit, Wildness, and the Sublime in the Writings of Henry D. Thoreau compiled, edited and with a foreword by Edmund A. Schofield

^{Orchis (Photographer: Herbert Gleason, from The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, 1906)}

Going a-berrying implies more things than eating the berries. — "Huckleberries"

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