why did he go in the wild for ? find quote in the book that sayd why he wanted to go in the wild.

Chris wanted to live deliberately. He wanted to live his perceived romantic life of his idols like Thoreau and Emerson. Unfortunately the realities of living in the Alaskan wilds was nothing like living beside a stream in Walden.

“make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt.