我到林中去，因為我想過一種更加深思熟慮的生活，去直麵生命中更本質的東西。我想看看是不是能領會大自然給我的啟示，這樣到生命的終點的時候，不會遺憾地發現自己根本就沒有活過。

 梭羅

 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. 

Thoreau.

這是兩年前的春天,駐足於瓦爾登湖畔的小木屋前,仔細領會這段文字的意義.後來寫信給我的一個中文係朋友,他如此譯文.覺得有點意思.