I went into the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front
only the essential facts of life and not, when I came to die, discover
that I had not lived. I wanted... 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 -
