Henry David Thoreau
"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."
— Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For", in "Walden"
— Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For", in "Walden"