live in the wild

I got a few replies last winter when I posted an entry here but no one that I was interested in living in the wild with. Not going to happen this time. I’ll take whoever I like the most who’s emailed me when it’s time to go. I’m looking to live in the wilderness in British Columbia. I’ve already scouted spots out on maps and I’m ready to leave at any time. I have the skills and knowledge to survive. Please contact me soon, I really want to get out of here. I can be reached at rushisthebest@hotmail.com

I was wondering where some good LEGAL nature spots are to live in, where you probably wouldn’t run into others? I have been doing some research about it, but so far I have come up empty. I know Alaska would be perfect, but the distance is a killer (I live in Arkansas). Any ideas would be great. Thanks.

Hi all :) I came across this site after search google for some areas around the UK that would be suitable for this kind of adventure!!!! and I’m so glad I did!!!!

This way of living, get up go to work, come home… rinse and repeat is no way to live!!!! I’ve always have loved and had an affinity with nature and the land and want to experience life as it should be! not as society dictates!

Ideally I’d like to help create a community of like minded people where we can get back to appreciating life and all its pleasures and not worry about politics,control,a 9-5 or any other man made stresses!!

Ideally I’d like to start getting to know others who want the same so we can start taking this forward! helping everyone learn the basics and then going off grid…

Please get in touch!! I’m eager to hear from anyone and everyone with thoughts and suggestions!!

I want someone who’s experienced with growing plants to go with me into nature for a summer to grow nugs, fruits, and some vegetables.

It would be great if you had a truck or van to put a mattress in! Then we don’t need to build a shelter and we can put our stuff in the van.

We’d need a good setting for growing and getting clean water. We should get as much food as possible so we have more time to grow nugs.

I want to do this soon so leave a comment if you’re interested!

I have been thinking seriously about running from this stage in my life and beginning a new stage, in the wilderness, after I complete my HSC this year. Motives; need change and need escape. Is there anyone who lives in Australia, preferably NSW, who has been thinking about this too? This type of change requires real planning and preparation so any ideas (e.g wilderness places to live in Aus) would be great! I am mainly concerned about stumbling up against laws which protect wildlife/national parks and prevent ppl living/camping there. I will have to research further into this!
Peace:)

I also have dreampt of living in the alaska wilderness, i even just got back from a trip there and it really is a wonderfull place. although the locals told me that there is one bear per 2 square miles. I’m eighteen and curently live in denver by the mountains and try to practice my skills as a can, i would love to have someone to travel with and keep the loneliness from driving me insane while in the wilderness. I’m also slowely buying tools that should last a lifetime (so i’m told) like gransfors bruks axes, i also would like to train a bigger breed of dog for hunting and companionship. I’m not sure exactly when i’ll be ready to leave but i hope within the next couple years, if your interested in doing this or in the denver area and would like to get together and practice or just chat email me at alec.awesome@gmail.com. i would like to keep the group of people whithin my age range as well, i hope to here from some of you soon.

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.

I am ready to get off the grid and live in the wilderness. I have only contemplated doin this alone until I came upon this site. It is encouraging to find so many with similar desires; loneliness would be the toughest part.

I spent four years in the Marine Corps, am an avid outdoorsman, adventurist, and possess most of the basic knowledge to survive in the wilderness (without actually having done so).

If Building a shelter, planting crops, gathering wild plants, fishing/hunting/trapping is your idea of living in the wild, then please contact me!

Some locations in consideration: Montana, Alaska, Canada, Ozarks. I am definitely open to suggestions. I feel two or three would be a good size.

If you are serious and ready to go now, drop me a line at Zipitandgo@gmail.com

I have always dreamed of living in the wild. Anything that I say will just be a repetition of what all of you have already written. I share a mutual feeling and desire with all of you in regards to living in the wild. I know in my gut that THAT is the one thing that would make me happy and complete. This artificial world and society we live in today is not for me. I need to be in nature and with animals and around people who share the same understandings about life as me. I want so badly to go to Africa and trek the various landscapes. I want to see everything! I want to live life for myself instead of for others! All I have been doing is following the herd… even though I’ve always been the rebel and the strange one in my family and friends, I have completed college and I have had jobs… I’m 23 and I feel like I have not lived at all. I have not been happy. The only time I feel peace and happiness is when I am in nature and around animals. I am not afraid to walk in the dark and to walk with the Lions or to come across a snake. I just wish that I had to courage to leave this artificial world that society has created and go live my dream and be happy.

Jess