...(1817—1862) moved to an isolated cabin in the woods so he could, as described in his book Walden, "live deliberately, to front only the essential facts...and see if I could not learn what it had to teach . . ." Reducing dependency on money by building his own shelter and growing his own food was part of...

...simple, single room, Thoreau's house transforms to home, a dwelling reduced to fundamental simplicity: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. ... to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms" (W, 90-91). As with fire, reduction...

...offered unconditional acceptance of my love, a love for the wilderness that defined us both. Aft erworc / went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, ana see if I could not learn what it had to teach, ana not, when it came to die, discover that I had...

...teasons fot the move to Walden Pond. "I went to the woods because I 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...