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| | Historic Walden Woods (file 1 of 5) |
 | | Thoreau admired, were Walden woods, the Estabrook country, and the old Marlboro road." (003)Channing, who had access to Thoreaus manuscript Journal before and after his death, probably has in mind an entry for June 10, 1853, in which Thoreau specifies the same three wild tracts and adds a fourth not mentioned by Channing. |
 | | Not only is Walden Woods the setting of [Page 003] one of the most famous works of American literature, Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854), but in Walden Woods Thoreau generated his theory of forest succession, a cornerstone of modern ecological science. |
 | | My house was on the side of a hill, immediately on the edge of the larger wood, in the midst of a young forest of pitch pines and hickories, and half a dozen rods from the pond, to which a narrow footpath led down the hill. |
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