Quote by Christopher McCandless

“The one who merely flees is not yet free. In fleeing he is still conditioned by that from which he flees.”

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Drifting away from one’s culture leaves one stranded in the middle of nowhere till the time his suffocation strangles him.”

— Q. M. Sidd

“The wilderness was dangerous; it infected me. I would be forever unmoored, inured to the safety of isolation.”

— Scott Pearce

“You see, in all his travels through the fallen ruins of civilizations, he picked up this notion that mankind is insignificant. That nothing we…

— Matthew J. Kirby

“That wild, dangerous part of him. He knew now where it was running, and to whom. He could never have known that the one…

— Thea Harrison

“Without his Maker, a man is lost in wander.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“He lay on the bed and he felt he might never rise from it. He lay in an enormous torpor. The world was too…

— William Gay

“he was ready, perhaps, to shed a little of the armor he wore around his heart, that upon returning to civilization, he intended to…

— Jon Krakauer

“Don't be in temper, to leave so quickly, that I may be dying. But all too soon, the leaves and debris will gather elsewhere.”

— Anthony Liccione

“And then there are days of being lost in the woods, not knowing the fate, but just being a wanderer - That's life”

— Anonymous

“We, the survivors of the crossing, clung to the beast that had stolen us away. Not a soul among us had wanted to baord…

— Lawrence Hill

“Periodically throughout his life, he would seek comfort in his troubles by lurching into the wilderness, only to find more loneliness there and end…

— Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith ·