| Richard S. Gilbert - 2005 - 118 páginas
...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... | |
| Todd Allen Gates - 2005 - 96 páginas
...(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... | |
| John Dolis - 2005 - 244 páginas
...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... | |
| Hap Wilson - 2005 - 198 páginas
...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... | |
| Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1994 - 930 páginas
...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... | |
| Leo Truchlar - 2006 - 398 páginas
...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... | |
| Southwestern Region - 2006 - 334 páginas
...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... | |
| Baron Wormser - 2006 - 222 páginas
...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... | |
| 136 páginas
...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... | |
| R. Todd Felton - 2006 - 99 páginas
...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... | |
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