Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal. As for me, I've… - Christopher McCandless

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Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal.

As for me, I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.

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About Christopher McCandless

Christopher Johnson McCandless (12 February 1968 –

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Native Name: Christopher Johnson McCandless
Alternative Names: Alexander Supertramp
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I've decided I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty is just too good to pass up.

The life and simple beauty of it is too good to pass up

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Deliberate living: Conscious attention to the basics of life, and a constant attention to your immediate environment and its concerns - A job, a task, a book; anything requiring efficient concentration (Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

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So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

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