Freedom Quote by Ken Ilgunas

“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

“... 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“We can only miss what we once possessed. We can only feel wronged when we realize something has been stolen from us. We can’t…

— Ken Ilgunas