"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.

 

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."

 

Henry David Thoreau - Walden

 

February 2013