Quite similar to Thoreau's stated intent in going to Walden: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of l

Quite similar to Thoreau's stated intent in going to Walden: "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."