...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 of life, to live...Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life CYRUS was suitably confused by all of this, and the ten or twelve lines that follow it, and I was hard-pressed...

...modern societies. Thoreau (cited in Oelschlaeger 1991: 153), for instance, wrote: I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live...Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life. It is interesting to note that research on happiness and subjective well-being is beginning to disclose...

...conscious attempt at iconoclasm but of the inherent complexity of his perceptions coupled with a passion The result, among other things, is one of the most condensed and energetic styles in English. Though...

...what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ... I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live...into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms. Henry David Thoreau Walden In wildness is the preservation of the earth. Henry David Thoreau An infallible...

...not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived ... I wanted to live deep and suck out all of the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike...into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms. 'One of the enduring representations of the need for freedom is the voyage of discovery or the call...

...remember one of the most celebrated moments in the book, when Thoreau tells us of his determination "to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its...genuine meanness of it and publish its meanness to the world.")11 Now he 176 Thoreau's journal page, October 16, 1856. © The Pierpont Morgan Library, New...

...I did not wish to live what was not life; nor did I wish to practice resignation. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live...Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to drive life into a corner and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then...

...the marrow of life, to live Spartan-like, to put to rout all that was not life, to shave close and to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms. 12July Observing the tenacious comings and goings of great black ants. They are very individual, these...

...learn what it 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...drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.20 As a topic for the imagination, death is vivid as the frustration of that will to live. Extinction...

...is so dear; nor did I wish to 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 to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and...