"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. 
I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; 
Nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. 
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, 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..."