...with birds and squirrels. In the chapter called "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" Thoreau says: I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. Walden is a refreshing book;...

...depending for sustenance and enjoyment almost entirely upon his own resources. As he himself says, "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...and see if I could not learn what it had to teach." He was not a misanthropist as some have thought. He simply preferred solitary communion with nature...

...part of it arose out of his closeness to nature. In the second chapter, Wliat I Lived For, he says : " I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." One thing he believed he had already learned — that the institution of human slavery was morally...

...or an ornithology ; rather would he learn of Nature the fundamentals of human living. "I went into the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ' ' Burroughs went into the woods to know and to make others to know, Thoreau went in to think and...

...society. He knew very well the shortest route home, and often took it. " I went to the woods," he wrote, "because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Walden, which...

...up, such paltry information as we get, the oracles would distinctly inform us how this might be done. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...wish to live what was 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...

...up, such paltry information as we get, the oracles would distinctly inform us how this might be done. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...wish to live what was 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...

...manner: each speaks with epic swiftness of his way of life. " I went to the woods," says Thoreau, " because I wished to live deliberately, to front only...came to die, discover that I had not lived. . . I wanted ... to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be...

...with Nature, and out of these experiences wrote his most popular book, " Walden," in which he says : " I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." It is said that his expenses were but nine cents a day. 876. Orleans House was the home of Alexander...

...kindred manner. Each speaks with epic swiftness of his way of life. "I went to the woods," says Thoreau, "because I wished to live deliberately, to front only...came to die, discover that I had not lived. ... I wanted ... to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be...