...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...

...exist till the end of time, for my being has no end. Kahili Gibran 1883-1931 Anthem of Humanity 23. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Henry D. Thoreau 1817-1862 Where I Lived, and What I Lived For 24. I have felt A presence that disturbs...

...clothing, and shelter. As he later wrote in the "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" chapter of Wdden: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Living no more than a mile (1.6 km) from the center of town, Thoreau was close enough to visit Concord...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882 ~ Less is more. ~ Robert Browning, 1812-1889 ~ "Andrea del Sarto," 1855 I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived. ~ Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862 ~ As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe...

...rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. Walden ch. 2 (1854) 23 h advances! The Lady of the Lake canto 2, st. 19 (1810)...sounds like nonsense, my dear." "May be so, my dear: to discover that I had not lived. Walden ch. 2 (1854) 24 Our life is frittered away by detail. . ....