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" 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. "
Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge - Page 185
1896
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Everyday Philosophy: Practical Applications

Gene Bammel - 2005 - 438 lehte
...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...
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Tracking Thoreau: Double-crossing Nature and Technology

John Dolis - 2005 - 244 lehte
...found with my pages on this score than was found with the Walden ice" [ W, 325] ) , disown its self ("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" [W, 323]) —...
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Celebrating the Rest of Your Life: A Baby Boomer's Guide to Spirituality

David Yount - 180 lehte
...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...
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Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined

Andrea J. Buchanan, Amy Hudock - 2006 - 308 lehte
...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...
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Hike Your Own Hike: 7 Life Lessons from Backpacking Across America

Francis Tapon - 2006 - 177 lehte
...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...
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A Journey Into the Transcendentalists' New England

R. Todd Felton - 2006 - 99 lehte
...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...
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Schwelle, Passage, Verwandlung: ein Interpretationsentwurf

Leo Truchlar - 2006 - 398 lehte
...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...
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Retired with Husband: Superwoman's New Challenge

Mary Louise Floyd - 2006 - 260 lehte
...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...
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A Land Gone Lonesome: An Inland Voyage Along the Yukon River

Dan O'Neill - 2006 - 280 lehte
...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...
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Heartless Immensity: Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America

Anne Baker - 2006 - 194 lehte
...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...
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