Which quote from Thoreau's Walden is the best example of the transcendentalist ideal of emphasizing spiritual wellbeing over financial wellbeing?

 

A. Sec 14: One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure...

B. Sec 16: I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps...I had...more lives to live.

C. Sec.19: Love your life, poor as it is. You may...have some pleasant...hours, even in a poorhouse.

by Henry David Thoreau

Walden is Henry David Thoreau's record of his experience living more than two years alone in the woods - on land owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson There Thoreau built a small cabin near a pond and conducted his experiment of simplifying and making observations on life. His book, Walden, is a detailed account of his experience and includes everything from his daily finances and the economies of living in the wild to his innermost insights and feelings.

 

1-... When first I took up my abode in the woods, that is, began to spend my nights as well as days there, which, by accident, was on...

 

16-I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one. It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves. I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or six years since I trod it, it is still quite distinct. It is true, I fear, that others may have fallen into it, and so helped to keep it open. The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity! I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now