"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
I think that want Thoreau meant by to live deliberately was that sometimes people are alive but they aren’t intentionaly trying to live. So by going into the woods to live, he’s really living because he makes a conscious choice. When he dies, he doesn’t want to have regrets because he did not make choices. He’s trying to take hold of his life?
