I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden or Life in the Woods (1854)
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Not all readers make it to the end of Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854), since a few dozen pages of snoozy meditations on masonry, quasi-Eastern philosophy, and pea shoots come between it and the famous lines about “living deliberately.” The short chapter entitled “Conclusions” is one of my favorites, and where I go for solace and wisdom.
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