...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...

...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...

...own (the only means) he would work upon the world: — I went to the woods [he writes in "Walden"] because I wished to live deliberately, to front only...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. With this object, he sought to deliver himself from all that is unessential. "I grew in those seasons...

...was in his heart and its call was in his ears. In Walden he gives his reasons for obeying this call: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...came to die, discover that I had not lived. ... I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, ... to drive life into a corner and reduce...

...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...

...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...

...maintaining himself against any man and all men. "I wished to live deliberately" he writes of himself, "to front only the essential facts of life, and see...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." In American literature he is a major figure because he has described perfectly the revolt of a sensitive...

...human beings make patchwork of it. "I went to the woods," he says, in a passage of typical candor, "because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life ... I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; ... I wanted to live deep and suck...