...not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted...to give a true account of it in my next excursion. 19 Recognizing all the while that most people cannot or will not pursue experience in such radical...

...unashamedly candid about his involvement in his materiaL Thoreau says. 76 The New Romanticism 1 wanted lo live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. to...to give a true account of it in my next excursion. t74) How like this is Buddy Glass's program tand 1 suspect it may be a deliberate echo): 1 want to...

...to practice resignation, unless that proved to be necessary, but: to live deep and suck out all that marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like...to give a true account of it in my next excursion. Unfortunately, we live like ants, our life frittered away by detail. We should try to simplify our...

...broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and . . . if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and...to give a true account of it in my next excursion. The "next excursion" he refers to was his essay "Ktaadn," a straightforward account of a two-week trip...

...to get the whole and genuine meanness of it. and publish its meanness to the world: or if it vvere sublime. to know it by experience. and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. t74) How like this is Buddy Glass's program tand 1 suspect it may be a deliberate echo): 1 want to...

..."because I wished to live deliberately" — deliberatingly — so that if life were sublime "I ... [would] know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it." The sketchbook is Thoreau's corroboration of the sublimity of life. The story of Walden water is its...

...life... I wanted... to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness...to give a true account of it in my next excursion. (89) A scholar and keen naturalist rather than a hermit, Thoreau devoted his time to communion with...

...drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to live a true account of it in my next excursion. — Henry David Thoreau, Walden IN MY HAND I hold a...

...unless it was quite necessary. l wanted to live deep and suck 4. Ralph Waldo Emerson 5. Walt Whitman out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and...and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.7 In essence, this is Story - living life to the fullest and paying great attention to the...

...a corner and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to...experience, and be able to give a true account of it.- HD Thoreau «Cife is as much a force in the universe as electricity or gravitational pull; the presence...