...to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. ... to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms" (W, 90-91). As with fire, reduction is the genuine gauge of existence — both the princip(le)al and...

...could not learn what it had to teach, and not when I came to die, discover that I had not lived ... to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life .... to drive life into a corner and reduce it to its lowest terms; for most men, it appears to me, are in...

...not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of...drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.13 One oft-quoted lesson Thoreau learned from his studies is that wildness— in humans and in...

...time of my life was that I might get distracted and forget, as Henry David Thoreau (1854) had put it, "to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life,...Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life" (p. 60). So I went to California. It was there that I discovered how much of a hometown boy I was....

...not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life ... to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. (90-91) The passage...

...could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived... I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of...broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a comer, and reduce it to its lowest terms. HENRY DAVID THOREAU one else's discomfort to consider. I...

...life, living is so dear, Nor do I wish to practice resignation, unless it is quite necessary. I wish to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life,...sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that is not life; I want to cut a broad swath and shave dose, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it...

...to its internal character. Thoreau hoped to "live deep and suck all the marrow of life." He aimed to "shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms." Creation's single-mindedness appealed to Thoreau; the woods and the pond and the sky all did precisely...

...die, discover that l had not lived. l did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear ...l wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life ...£ Er setzte mit diesem Experiment, die am Reisbrett erstellte Arbeit ROUSSEAUs sozusagen in die...

...deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach...I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life." The great Transcendentalist never writes about a golf course, but he does record his deliberate encounters...