Een jaar.
-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.
-I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear;
-nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary.
-I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life,
-to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life,
-to cut a broad swath
-and shave close,
-to drive life into a corner,
-and reduce it to its lowest terms.