Henry David Thoreau: Walden, 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.”
Reflection
You do not need a cabin; you need the question. What is essential today, and what is merely loud?
Source record
- Author
- Henry David Thoreau
- Original source
- Walden, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
- Original date
- 1854
- Edition used
- Original English, 1854 — public domain
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