 | Todd Allen Gates - Business & Economics - 2005 - 96 pages
...(1817—1862) moved to an isolated cabin in the woods so he could, as described in his book Walden, "live deliberately, to front only the essential facts...and see if I could not learn what it had to teach . . ." Reducing dependency on money by building his own shelter and growing his own food was part of... | |
 | John Dolis - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 244 pages
...simple, single room, Thoreau's house transforms to home, a dwelling reduced to fundamental simplicity: "I went 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... | |
 | Hap Wilson - Nature - 2005 - 198 pages
...offered unconditional acceptance of my love, a love for the wilderness that defined us both. Aft erworc / went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, ana see if I could not learn what it had to teach, ana not, when it came to die, discover that I had... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 930 pages
...teasons fot the move to Walden Pond. "I went to the woods because I wished to live delibetately, to ftont only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not leatn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discovet that I had not lived." The key to... | |
 | Robert Adon Fink - Literary Collections - 2006 - 182 pages
...why he built a cabin in the woods surrounding Walden Pond and lived there two years and two months: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived" (81). Like Frankl, Thoreau understood that learning from life meant meeting life and living it no matter... | |
 | Leo Truchlar - Arts, Modern - 2006 - 398 pages
...Abbruch dem Ich ebenso neue Kräfte zuwachsen wie durch den Impuls des Bauens selbst. Die Textstellen „I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived" (lOOf.) und „I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that... | |
 | R. Todd Felton - Travel - 2006 - 99 pages
...bestknown passages from Walden (it is even on the sign that stands today at the site of his cabin): "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." This was not an idle sojourn but an active quest. Thoreau investigated and considered a number of different... | |
 | Baron Wormser - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 222 pages
...delighted him. The initial, incantatory sentence, however many times I read it, remains thrilling: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." The woods? Why not foreign travel or political ambition or philandering? The woods? What did trees... | |
 | Kathleen Hall - Self-Help - 2006 - 284 pages
...apartment where I was staying. I dusted off the front of the book, and as I opened to the first page, read: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Little did I know those words would change my life forever. My initial response to that famous passage... | |
 | Southwestern Region - 2006 - 334 pages
...CAZAYOUX • UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE lNTRODUCTlON Henry David Thoreau wrote in Walden, "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." My belief is that humankind's psyche and soul are closely tied to the natural environment, and that... | |
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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... 
