“Perhaps there’s no better act of simplification than climbing a mountain. For an afternoon, a day, or a week, it’s a way of reducing a complicated life into a simple goal. All you have to do is take one step… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
“Money, prestige, possessions, a home with two and a half bathrooms—these aren’t the guiding lights of the universe that show us our path. How can we dedicate our lives to such things when we can see the impermanence of everything… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
“Perhaps there’s no better act of simplification than climbing a mountain. For an afternoon, a day, or a week, it’s a way of reducing… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
“... But these skeptics are only selectively skeptical. They think themselves enlightened for resisting all this new proof and remaining steadfast in mistrusting anything… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
“I learned such a glimpse cannot be gotten with half-hearted journeys and soft endeavors. Nor could I hope for such a glimpse merely by… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
“I felt a strange twinge of anger looking at the stars. It was as if I’d just learned of an inheritance that had been… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
“I could sense the slightest abridgment of my freedom like a princess who can feel the impression of a pea under forty featherbeds. I… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
“Like us, many students had spent their years in college thinking they’d get that well-paying, planet-saving job, even if they’d heard horror stories from… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
“I am a member of the “career-less generation.” Or the “screwed generation.” Unlike previous generations, the members of my generation won’t get jobs and… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, to cede control to fate, I realized, is to assume more control than ever before. I wasn’t just traveling anymore. I was traveling… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
“We have trains to hop, voyages to embark on, and rides to hitch. And then there’s the great American wild—vanishing but still there—ready to… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
“On this voyage, I couldn't help but think we need need. We need to be forced to go outside. We need to be forced… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
“Be a devotee in the Church of the Consumer and you’ll forever live in fear of the capricious God of Style. Freedom, though, is… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
“It was strange how it was always the poor who picked us up [hitchhiking]...They dwelled beneath poverty lines and were undereducated, but they were...more… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
![“It was strange how it was always the poor who picked us up [hitchhiking]...They dwelled beneath poverty lines and were undereducated, but they were...more civilized than the finely bred..for there is no demographic that has a sharper instinct for empathy than the downtrodden.” quote by Ken Ilgunas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3c4/ken-ilgunas-26210_poverty_it-was-strange-how-it-was-always-the-poo_811885.jpg)