...confusion of cities, but in the solitude of the forest hoped to perpetuate them in his life. He says : " 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,...

...of training himself for his especial business of daily living Thoreau gives his own account :— " I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front 616 Thoreau : Hermit and Thinker. only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn...

...of training himself for his especial business of daily living Thoreau gives his own account : — " I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I emitl not learn what it bad to teach, and not,...

...time making money. He says, " I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to find out the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it bad to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. T did not wish to live what...

...narrow craft. He felt, with the great Agassiz, that he could not waste time making money. He says, " I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to find out the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when...

...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, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not,...

...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 wish to live what was not life, living...

...at Walden Pond, he writes : "I went into 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 — I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like...

...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, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and 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, to front only the essential / facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not,...