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
| Philip Cafaro - 2006 - 289 pages
...the lessons and the life itself may grow stale with time. He writes in Waldens concluding chapter: "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... | |
| Amy Belding Brown - 2006 - 340 pages
...them that were in bonds as bound with them — FROM THE GRAVESTONE OF L i D i AN JACKSON EMERSON 27 left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. — HENRY DAVID THOREAU For nearly eight years Henry had been my companion and friend. I had come to... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 2007 - 525 pages
...Where the passenger cabins or berths were located. 29 In Walden this and the previous paragraph became: "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 had, by each pursuing... | |
| David Yount - 2007 - 204 pages
...at length, 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... | |
| 2007 - 108 pages
...any bread or cake. You must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand-heap. - ' J "JE 80 Epilogue 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... | |
| Milton Meltzer - 2006 - 162 pages
...Rivers — and a large part of a second book, Walden — but he had other lives to live. He tells 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... | |
| Dan O'Neill - 2008 - 278 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... | |
| 1892 - 796 pages
...Thoreau's life at Walden was merely a characteristic episode in a consistent and harmonious career. " I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there," he Bays. " I learned this at least from my experiment : that if one advances confidently in the direction... | |
| 朱立民 - 2000 - 568 pages
...目的已達, 再住下去或者會失去意義, 於是他 決定離開, 走上一段新的旅程: 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 - 2002 - 544 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 10. Count de Mirabeau, Honore Riqueti (1749-1791) £° 1 1 . to go out of one's way seemed... | |
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