Christopher McCandless
Christopher McCandless
Christopher Johnson "Chris" McCandlesswas an American hiker and itinerant traveler. After graduating from college in 1990, McCandless traveled the United States, and eventually hitchhiked to Alaska in April 1992. There, he set out along an old mining road known as the Stampede Trail, with minimal supplies, hoping to live simply off the land. Almost four months later, McCandless' decomposing body, weighing only 30 kilograms, was found by hunters in a converted bus used as a backcountry shelter along the Stampede...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionOther
Date of Birth12 February 1968
CityEl Segundo, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Christopher McCandless quotes about
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.
All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.
I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.
Don´t hesitate or allow yourself to make excuses. Just get out and do it. Just get out and do it. You will be very, very glad that you did.
Some people feel like they don't deserve love so they walk quietly into the empty spaces.
You don't need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us.
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.
If you want something in this life, reach out and grab it.
...there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
Make each day a new horizon.
Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause “the West is the best.” And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure, the climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the great white North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.
Surely all Americans have the right to give their money only to those causes which they support. But what kind of society has this created? A society where the ignorant reign. A society where enlightened must hold their tongues. A nation whose politicians must profess half-hearted devotion to an ancient fable or face the disastrous consequences of speaking their true mind.
We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.
The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.