LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
AMERICAN RENAISSANCE UNIQUELY AMERICAN ART LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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to live consciously
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to learn to garden
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to escape his enemies
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to contemplate sin
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -On July 4, 1845, Henry David Thoreau decided it was time to be alone. He settled in a forest on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and built himself a tiny cabin. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, ” he famously wrote in Walden.
Detailed explanation-3: -Thoreau remarks that his reasons for leaving Walden Pond are as good as his reasons for going: he has other lives to live, and has changes to experience.
Detailed explanation-4: -He explains that he chose this place because he “wished to live deliberately, ” to simplify everything in his life to the barest of necessities so that he could really live. Nowadays, the world moves too quickly; he wants to slow down and really enjoy life.
Detailed explanation-5: -In 1845, 27 year-old Henry David Thoreau built a simple house on the shore of Walden Pond on land owned by his friend and influential writer Ralph Waldo Emerson. He lived here for two years, two months and two days. This pe-riod became transformative for him and, ultimately, a meaningful reflection for us all.