1. Thoreau and Principles for Living
In Thoreau's case he was simply in love with the divinity of nature and desire for a deliberate life. ... Thoreau says "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. " (Where I lived, and What I lived for) Living deliberately does not necessarily make anybody rich in the traditional sense because it aims for something with a more valuable reward. ... He wanted to live his life, rather than find out too late that it had, in fact,...
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