I went to the woods because I
wished to live deliberately, to
front only the essential facts of
life, and see what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die,
discover that I had not lived. . .
I wanted to live deep and suck
out all the marrow of life. . .Our
life is frittered away by detail.
An honest man has hardly need
to count more than his ten
fingers, or in extreme cases he
may add his ten toes, and lump
the rest. Simplicity, simplicity,
simplicity! . . .Let us spend one
day as deliberately as Nature,
and not be thrown off the track
by every nutshell and mosquito's
wing that falls on the rails! . . .
Time is but the stream I go
a-fishin' in!
Chapter 2, Thoreau's Walden (1854)
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