Chapter 2: Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life...and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.Read in Books4Free →
Why I Went to the Woods
From Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau's mission statement for the Walden experiment, articulating his desire to confront life directly and avoid dying without having lived.
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