TRUE EXPRESSIONS
I WENT TO THE WOODS
“ 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 . I did not wish to live what was not life , living is so dear ; nor did I wish to practise resignation , unless it was quite necessary . I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life , to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life , to cut a broad swath and shave close , to drive life into a corner , and reduce it to its lowest terms ...”
Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862
PORTFOLIO MAGAZINE 79