into the wild book quotes with page numbers

He’d tell us to think about all the evil in the world, all the hatred, and imagine ourselves running against the forces of darkness, the evil wall that was trying to keep us from running our. I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. It should not be denied that being footloose has always exhilarated us. He looked like those paintings of Jesus on the cross. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.

Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the Great White North. The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual pilgrimage. Thou shalt not return, ’cause “the West is the best.” And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. The freedom and simple beauty is too good to pass up… When you want something in life, you just gotta reach out and grab it. I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don’t want one. And when you love, God’s light shines through you. People just need to change the way they look at things. God’s place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. You are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. The core of mans’ spirit comes from new experiences. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past. Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. I’m going to paraphrase Thoreau here… rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness… give me truth. I read somewhere… how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong… but to feel strong. There is a pleasure in the pathless woods / There is a rapture on the lonely shore / There is society, where none intrudes, / By the deep sea, and music in its roar / I love not man the less, but Nature more… / – Lord Byron Theres dew on the grass in the morning.He suddenly couldnt remember if he had known this or not, and it made him quite irritable.

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Into the wild book quotes with page numbers