I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately,I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, To put to rout all that was not life, and not when I had come to die, Discover that I had not lived.
我步入丛林,因为我希望生活有意义,我希望活得深刻,吸取生命中所有精华,把非生命的一切都击溃,以免当我生命终结,发现自己从没有活过。
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
自然状态下的生活是孤独、贫穷、丑陋、野蛮和短暂的。