English & Literature
According to Thoreau, why did he go to the woods in Where I Lived and What I lived For?
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I went to 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.
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For