Read the passage from "Walden."

"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. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary."

What does the word resignation mean?

A. Giving in to conditions beyond your control
B. Changed
C. Solitude
D. Recognizing separate parts