...apace. Why did Thoreau turn from the haunts of men, to a life in the woods? His own words tell us: " I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ... I wanted...

...higher aims than the anchorites of old. He went to the woods, as he himself has told us, because he wished " to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life." So far he was like the hermits of the east. But it was only a two-years' sojourn, not a lifevisit,...

...support himself for five years. Lived in his shanty at Waiden on some fifteen dollars a year. He says: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not...

...cheaply nor to live dearly there, but to transact some private business with the fewest obstacles. ... I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...the essential / facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not...

...book, "Walden," in which he records his experiences as hermit at Walden Pond, he writes : "I went into the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to...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, to live...

...different temperament, resolved to go out into the world, to absorb Nature and the health of Nature : " I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could , not learn what it had to teach, and n\ .1 I came to die, discover that I had not livev . I did not...

...escape its self-made conventions, and get back to its primal state. "I went to the woods says Thoreau because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. * * *" But the essentials of life are not found by fleeing one's fellow-men. Emerson was misinterpreted;...

...critical hour. If we refused, or rather used up, such paltry information as we get, the oracles woidd distinctly inform us how this might be done. I went...only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not...

...paltry information as we get, the oracles would distinctly inform . *r*\ us how this might be done. x/» I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts 7>1 lite, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover...

...and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts....only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not...