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Why did Henry David Thoreau go to the woods?
to think about government
to write a novel
to understand life
to get away from jail
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to understand life
Thoreau went to the woods to "live deliberately" and "front only the essential facts of life," as he explains in Walden — to simplify, observe, and better understand existence. (He did spend a night in jail once for refusing to pay a poll tax, which inspired his essay "Civil Disobedience," but that was not why he moved to the woods.)
Thoreau went to the woods to "live deliberately" and "front only the essential facts of life," as he explains in Walden — to simplify, observe, and better understand existence. (He did spend a night in jail once for refusing to pay a poll tax, which inspired his essay "Civil Disobedience," but that was not why he moved to the woods.)
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