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.
This is posted on a sign next to the cairn at the site of the cabin in the woods at Walden Pond. The site is an amazing inspiration and worth the trip to Massachusetts to see it. But be warned, the trek to the actual cabin site (not the replica in the parking lot) is quite a trek, about half way around the lake.
