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Quote from Henry David Thoreau,


"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life,
and to see if I could not learn what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."


By:

Henry David Thoreau (more quotes by Henry David Thoreau or books by/about Henry David Thoreau)


(1817-1862) American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and transcendentalist

Source:

Walden', II, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

Categories:

Experimentation, Independence, Learning, Wisdom

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