I Went To The Woods Because I Wished To Live Deliberately Meaning

, a
student of Ralph Waldo Emerson's, was a transcendentalist, who believed strongly in the power of
nature and living simply.  He believed that our lives were too complicated, too "frettered
away in detail," and that simplifying our lives would help us to understand its true
meaning, and appreciate life for its value.  So, he devised a plan.  He went out to live on the
property of a friend's, by himself in a shack, for two years.  He tried to produce his own
crops, to live from the labor of his own hands, and to get rid of all of the...