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carry whatever you need in a backpack or your own pockets. lets dance. represent yourself. it takes a while, but you can walk anywhere. work with kids. get up, get out, get live. get your hands dirty and calloused. sleep outside under the stars. trespass. save the environment now with your hands. don't hesitate. show no fear. be selfish. cook for yourself, it tastes much better. make your own art. make friends in far away places. visit friends in far away places. travel as much as you can. stay up late, get up early. lots to do every day. be a part of the revoultion. never stop learning. don't be idle. break rules. choose freedom for yourself. try whatever you want. be good to you. stay in touch. show some conviction. grow your own vegetables. build stuff. keep everything you could ever need to live for an extended period of time in your car. steal gas with a hose. learn through experience. live intensely and with purpose. challenge others.Fuck it, i want to study the beauty of this life we've got. no time for anything else i figure."i love this living shit, i can't get enough of it."As to when i shall visit civilization, it will not be soon, I think. I have not tired of the wilderness; rather i enjoy its beauty and vagrant life i lead, more keenly all the time. I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities. Do you blame me then for staying here where i feel that i belong and am one with the world around me? It is true that i miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom i can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that i am surrounded with beauty... Even from your scsant description, I know that i could not bear the routine and humdrum of the life that you are forced to lead. I don't think that I could ever settle down. I have known too much of the depths of life already, and i would prefer anything to an anticlimax. Everett Reuss November 11, 1934Stay wild, follow your feet, build strong, live well, laugh often, and love much.