mikey_

hey, well ill not go into the reasons why again .. i think i said enough below. anywho, think i found a few guys who may be interested in this, well at least one. the plan is; in the early spring of 2011 me and one or so others are getting a plane from the uk to alaska. maybe stay a while in a hotel in fairbanks or anchorage and then head off for denali wilderness or lake clark wilderness. and thats where life begins.
im wondering again, is there anybody from uk/ireland who wants to come with us. or even anyone from the states or canada who is interested in this kind of thing and would meet us out there, at the airport of whereever. if interested in this send me an email at mkelly17@hotmail.co.uk

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

i am glad i found this site, and i share the same goals and desires as the rest of you on here whom are seeking to flee this sick society to live amongst the sheer simple beauty of nature. Each day i have to go for a short walk and remind myself tht one day i will live free, becuase it is only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles. “There is pleasure in the pathless woods . . . there is rapture on the lonely shore .. there is society where none intrudes, i love not man less, but nature more.”

I am 17 now and from ireland. When i finish my education and have learned the essential survival skills needed i will get a flight to alaska and live in the wild ..

if there is anyone from the uk or ireland who shares the same desire and would like to join me please email me. (il give you my email if/when you reply)

i am trying this site as it would be a good idea to go with someone else or maybe more. i will keep posting comments every month until i am nearly ready to leave and if i have no replies i guess il go on my own and live on the legacy of mc candless ..

Peace and respect to all those who share such a dream. Very few can hear the call of the wild in todays society ..

Spend a lifetime in the woods and you develop ingenuous and fruitful methods of inquiry, although you appear to be doing nothing at all. Once you lose your fear of the dark and wild interiorities, you become arrested by what they reveal. The darkness is infinitely full. It is exquisitely patterned and humming with life. It signifies intelligence, sentience. Mostly you learn to listen, and mostly you develop new reserves of patience. Mostly you discover the falsehoods of your own mind and thereby under go a loss of guile. But most of all you become aware of truths reflected by your silent sensing body. Out of this, wondrous things can sometimes emerge. After some time in the woods, you move differently. Rather, you move differently at different times. Sometimes like a night heron. Sometimes like an obstreperous elephant. Sometimes like a stalking wild cat. And sometimes just like however you are meant to move, as a person, a human being, determined by the arch and angle of your own two feet, your own nimble and supple strength and the fullness of your heart at the time. How you move depends on your awareness and the intensity of your purpose. And it is precisely how you move that shapes your inquiry. The woods are overwhelming, but this is just a sign of their generosity. They are like the universe: mysterious, endless, brimming over with a zillion things. You expect to go a little mad. You do. You lose your anchor in the familiar to dive into the depths of mystery, knowing you may never emerge and that if you do you will be another creature. Your discovery that everything is indeed connected undermines your desire to be civilized, normal. Your apprehension of the unending, unfathomable power of Life diminishes your attempts to be rational. You stand in danger of abrogating your pact with your own species. Your irrationality is barely disguised, but to you it is your principal tool of learning. You start to think like Moss. You wiggle your body like Eel. You hear animals talking and you find yourself talking to them. You feel meaningfully connected to trogons and toads. You spend hours, if not days just spellbound by the flicker and dance of leaves. You walk a particular trail at twilight. And people notice that strange look in your eyes. This craziness, if it is that, is welcome. It is scary yet utterly enchanting. Once possessed by the forest sprite, you dance to a different drummer. Once the Wild Mind percolates through, there is no knowing what might happen. You chuckle with orchids by moonlight and who-whoop back at the brown fish owl. You are secure, at home in the wilderness. You feel the earth turn, turn and turn again.