Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau builds a cabin out in the woods and lives there. He goal in all of this was to become one with nature. He was only a few miles away from town, but he blocks out that world and focuses on the area in front of him. He writes, "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, discovered that I had not lived." Thoreau wanted to live his life as raw as he could. He wanted to learn to appreciate the nature that he and many others so carelessly live on everyday. So he secluded himself. He build a house with his own two hands that was basically nothing more than a one room building. In doing so he found himself.