 | William Riley Halstead - Religion - 1913 - 348 pages
...of nature's doings. Thoreau tells us why he went to the woods to live: "I went to the woods to live because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, to see if I could learn what it had to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I had not... | |
 | John Calvin Metcalf - American literature - 1914 - 426 pages
...with birds and squirrels. In the chapter called "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" Thoreau says: I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. Walden is a refreshing book; the breezes blow through it; the pine needles lend their fragrance; the... | |
 | Maurice Garland Fulton - Education, Higher - 1914 - 568 pages
...depending for sustenance and enjoyment almost entirely upon his own resources. As he himself says, "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...and see if I could not learn what it had to teach." He was not a misanthropist as some have thought. He simply preferred solitary communion with nature... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - American literature - 1915 - 680 pages
...part of it arose out of his closeness to nature. In the second chapter, Wliat I Lived For, he says : " I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." One thing he believed he had already learned — that the institution of human slavery was morally... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - American literature - 1915 - 480 pages
...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... | |
 | Allen French - American literature - 1915 - 210 pages
...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... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - American prose literature - 1916 - 798 pages
...up, such paltry information as we get, the oracles would distinctly inform us how this might be done. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - American prose literature - 1916 - 760 pages
...up, such paltry information as we get, the oracles would distinctly inform us how this might be done. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as... | |
 | North American review - 1916 - 1008 pages
...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... | |
 | Mary Eleanor Kramer - American literature - 1917 - 322 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
