Wildlands of Cal Poly Pomona In wildness is the preservation of the world Henry D. Thoreau Natural Communities Plants Animals Threats In Memory Thoreau never set eyes on Cal Poly Pomona. The wildness of which he wrote, though, was not the uninhabited grandeur of the Sierra Nevada, or even the Maine woods. It was a pond on the outskirts of a major metropolitan area. In that pond he saw the cycle ...