 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
 | Gene Bammel - 2005 - 438 pages
...His detachment from material things, and from any one period of his life, is a model for all of us. "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... | |
 | Charles Edward Stuart - 2005 - 202 pages
...WASHINGTON My Dear Mr. President: On completing his sojourn at Walden pond, Henry David Thoreau noted: "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... | |
 | David Yount - 180 pages
...gain. When Henry David Thoreau abandoned his solitary life at Walden Pond, he gave this explanation: "I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. ... I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one. It is remarkable... | |
 | Andrea J. Buchanan, Amy Hudock - 2006 - 308 pages
...my children were my greatest inspiration . . . my Waiden Pond ... a mirror into my very own soul. / left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that L had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for... | |
 | R. Todd Felton - 2006 - 99 pages
...Walden Thoreau left Walden after his second year at the pond. In Walden, he gives only this reason: "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... | |
 | Mary Louise Floyd - 2006 - 260 pages
...to live a life of simplicity and write about it. He said in his journal later published as Walden, "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... | |
 | Dan O'Neill - 2006 - 280 pages
...legitimated American rustics who re-created themselves in the wilderness. Henry David Thoreau said: "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... | |
 | Leo Truchlar - 2006 - 398 pages
...learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived" (lOOf.) und „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... | |
 | Francis Tapon - 2006 - 177 pages
...if I could learn what it had to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I had not lived... 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... | |
 | Anne Baker - 2006 - 194 pages
...his own experiment has itself imposed the kind of pattern on space that he would like to resist:26 I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. ... It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten path... | |
| |
