...not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted...to give a true account of it in my next excursion. My colleagues would blush for and at me, suspecting me of internalizing too pure a dose of Thoreau...

...each his own, of course, but why not just join the Boy Scouts? Thoreau was very clear on this point: "I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow...to give a true account of it in my next excursion." Walden shows the reader how to live wisely in a world designed to make wise living impossible. Packed...

...put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to...to give a true account of it in my next excursion. "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For.'" Walden^ 90-91 If you stand right fronting and face to face...

...experience radically understood that makes for a fully realized form of the American self. As he recalled: I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...to give a true account of it in my next excursion. 19 Recognizing all the while that most people cannot or will not pursue experience in such radical...

...not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted...it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to "glorify God and enjoy him forever."...

...unashamedly candid about his involvement in his materiaL Thoreau says. 76 The New Romanticism 1 wanted lo live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. to...to give a true account of it in my next excursion. t74) How like this is Buddy Glass's program tand 1 suspect it may be a deliberate echo): 1 want to...

...to practice resignation, unless that proved to be necessary, but: to live deep and suck out all that marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like...to give a true account of it in my next excursion. Unfortunately, we live like ants, our life frittered away by detail. We should try to simplify our...

...not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted...it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to "glorify God and enjoy him forever."...

...life... I wanted... to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness...to give a true account of it in my next excursion. (89) A scholar and keen naturalist rather than a hermit, Thoreau devoted his time to communion with...

...not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted...it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to "glorify God and enjoy him forever."...