American Transcendentalism
Walden, or Life in the Woods
Henry David Thoreau • Reflections on Deliberate Living, Simplicity, and Nature
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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 see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
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Henry David Thoreau: Walden, or Life in the Woods
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