In his book, The Ecological Thought, Timothy Morton uses this film to explain a concept he refers to as “masculine Nature” (on a side note, Morton purposefully uses a capitol “N” in the word “nature” to refer to nature in an “unnatural” sense). In the end, he understands that the only way to be truly happy is to have it shared.Ĭhris McCandless and Morton’s “Ecological Thinking” He traveled so long and far to get to the wild, to get away from everyone and everything to find true happiness. Chris McCandless, or Alexander Supertramp, realizes while he is dying that happiness is best lived when it is shared with others. However, there is an ironic twist to this whole philosophy at the end of the film. It’s not about being alone or in solitude, but about being one with the world around you without the distractions of “civilized” people.
#THERES A PLEASURE IN THE PATHLESS WOODS FREE#
Living off the land, being free and having not to answer to anyone. The quote reads, “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.” To me, this quote tells of man in love with “nature,” and when I say nature I mean the absence of civilization and society finding happiness in the wild.
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