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.
~Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau may be a stuffy, prim, arrogant, and occasionally downright hypocritical (or at least self-contradicting) prat, but he has a point.