 I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.  The Literary World - Page 1991882Full view - About this book
 | Giles Gunn - 1981 - 489 pages
...which will never be one of opposition to a just government, if he should chance to meet with such. I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for... | |
 | Thomas L. Haskell, Richard F. Teichgraeber, III - 1996 - 564 pages
...become another confining routine of the sort he had gone to the pond to escape in the first place: I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for... | |
 | William H. Houff - 1994 - 254 pages
...resolving to go on? Thoreau left Walden after twenty-two months. When queried about that, he replied, "I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. I found I had several more lives to live." And indeed he did, including getting himself arrested for... | |
 | Lawrence Buell - 1995 - 604 pages
...itself; his triumph is in closure, the involuntary exile's safe return. Thoreau's closure is halfhearted: "I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there" (Wa 323) — a statement that Thoreauvians know to be even more equivocal in the original. ("I must... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1995 - 360 pages
...which will never be one of opposition to a just government, if he should chance to meet with such. 2 I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1996 - 220 pages
...which will never be one of opposition to a just government, if he should chance to meet with such. I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for... | |
 | Helen Bevington - 1996 - 238 pages
...living is so dear." After two years of the solitude more companionable than the world outside, he wrote, "I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there." When he had found what he went for and had several more lives to live, he moved the two miles back... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau, Kevin P. Van Anglen - 1996 - 236 pages
...end. Walden (1854), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 2, p. 125, Houghton Mifflin (1906). I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for... | |
 | John Tallmadge - 1997 - 228 pages
...stewardship meant thought and reading, teaching and storytelling, all of which would have to begin at home. "I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there," Thoreau had written. "Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1999 - 125 pages
...the mind — robs it of its simplicity and strength emasculates it. 7 July 1851, Journal 3: 289-91 I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps It seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for... | |
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