19th-Century Writer and Philosopher Henry David Thoreau on Nature: «I Went to the Woods because I Wanted to Live Deliberately»

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Henry David Thoreau was 27 when he decided to abandon his life in Concord, Massachusetts, and move to a forest. And he wasn’t exactly a resourceless man. Let’s remember that he gave lectures flooded with valuable advice, worked as a surveyor and made pencils. And anyway, he chose to embrace the forest. The decision lasted two years and produced a book bearing the name of the pond next to which he built his cabin: Walden. Thoreau explained it wit…