...wrote his open-air essays. In the one entitled, " Where I Lived, and What I Lired For," he says : " I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...front only the essential facts of life, and see if T could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived....

...and putting into practice some of his ideas about economy and simplicity of living. He says himself : "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. " He found in this seclusion full opportunity to do the two things he cared most about—- observe...

...and putting into practice some of his ideas about economy and simplicity of living. He says himself ; "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came tc die, discover that I had not lived." He found in this seclusion full opportunity to do the two things...

...and putting into practice some of his ideas about economy and simplicity of living. He says himself : "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came te die, discover that I had not lived. " He found in this seclusion full opportunity to do the two...

...the woods,' he writes in a passage that must have sounded strangely paradoxical as his ' Apologia,' ' because I wished to live deliberately, to front only...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.' Several causes conspired with his native temperament to make solitude peculiarly congenial to him....

...the woods,' he writes in a passage that must have sounded strangely paradoxical as his ' Apologia,' ' because I wished to live deliberately, to front only...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.' Several causes conspired with his native temperament to make solitude peculiarly congenial to him....

...that this residence was an experiment and only that? In a nugget, he summarized his purpose, — " I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential...and see if I could not learn what it had to teach." Thoreau thus represented the theoretical inquiries of the Transcendentalists regarding the simplification...

...and putting into practice some of his ideas about economy and simplicity of living. He says himself ; "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...to front only the essential facts of life, and see ifI could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."...

...and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To effect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts....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. I did not wish...

...W alden was .chiefly important because it tried to prove something. "I went to the woods," he says, "because I wished to live deliberately, to front only...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Nowadays, however, we care much less for what Waiden tries to prove than for what its author heard...