Recurrent Thought

My DH and I made our way through Mount Rainier National Forest today as we worked our way across the Cascades back toward the Pacific.

As we drove, for some reason the words of Thoreau passed through my thoughts several times;  especially as we walked through the Grove of the Patriarchs.

Here are the words and some of my pics:

 

"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."