“Perhaps there’s no better act of simplification than climbing a mountain. For an afternoon, a day, or a week, it’s a way… — Ken Ilgunas Complicated life Copy Share Image
“... But these skeptics are only selectively skeptical. They think themselves enlightened for resisting all this new proof and remaining steadfast in… — Ken Ilgunas Buddhism 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… — Ken Ilgunas Dreams 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… — Ken Ilgunas Clean water 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… — Ken Ilgunas Freedom 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… — Ken Ilgunas College graduates 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… — Ken Ilgunas High school 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… — Ken Ilgunas Space 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… — Ken Ilgunas Adventure 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… — Ken Ilgunas Nature 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,… — Ken Ilgunas Fashion 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… — Ken Ilgunas Poverty Copy Share Image
“We can only miss what we once possessed. We can only feel wronged when we realize something has been stolen from us.… — Ken Ilgunas Clean water Copy Share Image
“My SOUTH sign stopped working on an entrance ramp in a sleepy farm town called Kittitas in the state of Washington. A… — Ken Ilgunas Last time Copy Share Image
“only feel wronged when we realize something has been stolen from us. We can’t miss the million-strong flocks of passenger pigeons that… — Ken Ilgunas Clean water Copy Share Image
“I graduated on a May afternoon. When the director of ceremonies ended her speech, I had no desire to triumphantly fling my… — Ken Ilgunas Communication 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… — Ken Ilgunas Life Copy Share Image
“But is freedom from work really freedom? Is our money—no matter how we acquire it—a ticket to freedom?” — Ken Ilgunas Freedom Copy Share Image
“A college education is one of the few purchases a person can make that cannot be repossessed or auctioned off” — Ken Ilgunas Education Copy Share Image
“Yet as the days went by and the pains in my feet subsided, I began to look back on my little adventure… — Ken Ilgunas Adventure Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wished for the temperature to be warmer, but why live in a chronic state of want, constantly hoping for heat… — Ken Ilgunas Summer Copy Share Image
“freedom was simply being able to entertain the prospect of changing your circumstances.” — Ken Ilgunas Freedom Copy Share Image
