...night, I went into the barren office and wrote an e-mail to the staff. In part, it said: "I went into the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. " — Henry David Thoreau After much deliberation, I have decided to call it quits here. Last week's...

...Thoreau's words in this respect are keys to insight for the tradition in which both he and Poe write. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover I had not lived. ... I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily...

...author's quote on the sign near where his cabin used to be. 137 'I went to the woods because I wished-to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.' " I was proud that I had remembered this wonderful lesson on how to live. Shin smiled, "How extraordinary...

...honestly about the bedrock issues of existence. "I went to the woods," he wrote, "because I wished to ... front only the essential facts of life, and...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Earlier he had composed an account of a trip he and his brother had taken (A Week on the Concord and...

...follows upon a single act of His will. Clement of Alexandria (150-220) 3 went to the woods because 1 wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential...teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that 1 had not lived. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) od created everything, not only for our use, but also...

...David Thoreau went to the woods to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, to see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived ... to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life .... to drive life into a corner and reduce it...

...wished to live delibetately, to ftont only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not leatn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discovet that I had not lived." The key to living delibetately is a single commandment: "Simplify,...

...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...

...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,...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,...

...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...