...produced Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and the Phalansteries of Fourier. "I went to the woods," says Thoreau, "because I wished to live deliberately, to front only...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." "I left the woods," he says later, "for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that...

...association 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...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation,...

...greater 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...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...

...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...

..."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 lies by road less than two miles from Concord village, is an irregular pond of some sixty-four...

...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,...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation,...

...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,...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation,...

...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...when I 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...

...and nights 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...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...when I 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...