 | Josephine Latham Swayne - Concord (Mass.) - 1905 - 430 pages
...Channing's Thoreau. the Poet-Naturalist. » FB Sanborn in Life of Henry D. Thoreau. t Thoreau in Walden. 6 " I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...and see if I could not learn what it had to teach." — Thoreau in Walden. ble method, in order to meet my unusual expenses, I planted about two acres... | |
 | Joseph Morris, St. Clair Adams - Friendship - 1925 - 188 pages
...from Bronson Alcott and which he returned sharper than when he received it. Of his purpose he said: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...came to die, discover that I had not lived. ... I wanted ... to drive life into a corner and reduce it to its lowest terms." It will be seen that Thoreau... | |
 | English literature - 1925 - 638 pages
...world, as if he had been a monk in the Egyptian desert? Let him reply for himself when he says : " I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. . . . Our life is frittered away by detail. . . . Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity ! I say, let your... | |
 | Brooks Atkinson - Literary Criticism - 1927 - 182 pages
...tojrecord the tremendous gusto of his career, £vf wished to live deliberately," he wrote irTWalden, "to front only the essential facts of life, and see...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." So well had he accomplished that reckless purpose that ten or twelve years later death found him not... | |
 | Vernon Louis Parrington - American literature - 1927 - 528 pages
...but a Hellenist could utter such words as these which serve as his apology for the Walden experiment? I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and to see if I could learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not... | |
 | Brooks Atkinson - Authors, American - 1927 - 186 pages
...to record the tremendous gusto of his career. "I wished to live deliberately," he wrote in Walden, "to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could noflearn what tote"ach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." So well had he... | |
 | Michael S. Wenk - Business & Economics - 2005 - 296 pages
...Appendix A: List of Competent Bodies 219 Appendix B: List of Approved Verifiers 233 INTRODUCTION "/ went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived" — Henry David Thoreau While the history of the global environmental movement has been well documented... | |
 | William B. Irvine - Psychology - 2005 - 336 pages
...in the famous two-year experiment in which he lived in a small cabin on the shores of Walden Pond: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."24 (Thoreau, by the way, seems to have avoided this last fate; when he died at age forty-four... | |
 | Andrea J. Buchanan, Amy Hudock - Family & Relationships - 2006 - 308 pages
...in it all, enjoying every minute detail. I was testing and challenging myself like never before. / went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Isn't this the same reason I had decided to become a mother? I had a secret yearning, a desire to give... | |
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I went to the woods because 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 not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived... 
