 | R. Bruce Hull - Nature - 2006 - 273 pages
...experienced. His experiment revealed deep currents and a possible direction for the emerging American culture. 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... | |
 | Antje Korsmeier - Language and languages - 2006 - 208 pages
...den Wäldern verfolgt die Frage, was für den gelungenen Vollzug des eigenen Lebens notwendig ist: „I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary".248 Die Ideen des 248 Thoreau, Waiden, aaO, S. 90f. Thoreaus Kritik bzw. der moralische... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 118 pages
...possible for you? These same stars twinkle over other fields than these. - Walden, "The Ponds," 1854 I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...was not life, living is so dear, nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow... | |
 | Baron Wormser - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 222 pages
...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... | |
 | Steven P. Olson - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2006 - 122 pages
...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... | |
 | R. Todd Felton - Travel - 2006 - 99 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Adon Fink - Literary Collections - 2006 - 182 pages
...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... | |
 | Southwestern Region - 2006 - 334 pages
...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... | |
 | Kathleen Hall - Self-Help - 2006 - 284 pages
...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... | |
 | Leo Truchlar - Arts, Modern - 2006 - 398 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
