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- Deep in a forest in North Carolina lies a community of people who've left their jobs, given up their cell phones, and seceded. A former cybersecurity official, an engineer, a woman and her wild blue-eyed eight-year-old...the inhabitants of Wild Roots, as they call this place, are disillusioned with the ways of the modern world and react by living with, and off, the earth. Living off the grid, they pickle bear meat, harvest chestnuts, and, during the summer, bathe naked in a nearby stream. And yet, every so often, they venture into town to check in. Are they happy with their forest life? Are they lonely? And, are we living in the real world, or are they?
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"Money doesn't grow on trees, but I don't need it when the chestnuts grow on trees". Amazing.
Money does grow on trees...its literally (a mixture of linen and cotton) paper with no real value other than the one our illusion gives to it
Money does grow on trees ,
Infact that is the only place
it dose grow!🐰
Mark Garrett money does grow on trees- they are called cherries!
These people probably get some government money
😒Exactly, yes it's very easy to act like and live like you're homeless when you're already a millionaire....come on now
You knew there would be a ukulele
Garfunkel & Oats!
Nostra Thomas Lol!! 😁
Emily Liberty
I was waiting for the banjo.
Nostra Thomas lol true dat
Nostra Thomas and a nose ring
These people are living my fantasy life, while I live their nightmare.
Beautiful you get it!!!!
that's deep
Your Fantasy is actually their nightmare...as off grid living can be a tortuous existence for most...don't buy into this charade! Iv'e lived off grid, and though there are times of joy, there are more times of hell! Their existence isn't even organized or clean which will eventually cause collapse of their ideology!
Yep, very true. Our society has become a living breathing nightmare..
Your fantasy life is picking through others trash for scraps and putting your filthy kid in front of a film crew to have them stick leaves up their nose for the world to see? Wow!
The fact that people find this so foreign to themselves is alarming
Most people can't think outside the box, they are so inertly attached to the slave system, their life is just black and white, no colors at all.
@@iamgroot4706 exactly. I don't think a lot of people realize that life isn't supposed to be that complicated
Holy shit, you’re right! I keep telling people to keep the colors of rainbow spectrums in their lives to be freed from the grayness of their life, but it’s impossible to give freedom to the modern humans because of how black and white they are.
But ESPECIALLY grey, grey is the keyword as to why people are tired and depressed of life to the point of not caring about one another (Intrinsic value is super important now), it’s even worse with the lasting effects of the internet and the quarantines.
Apathy can kill.
real humans, living real lives. No cubicles. No mass hypnosis. So beautiful.
And whole foods organic cream cheese and smoked salmon! Haha! Something's amiss here.
@@curiousnomadic nobody drops out completely. Once they've tasted a cheese burger, fries, a milk shake, going back to eating sticks and twigs, bark chips, it ain't the same and why would anyone?
@will crow Are you young? After eating good healthy food cheese burgers (wicked heart burn), milk shakes (snots and zits) taste disgusting. Go try real food someday kid instead of eating fake food all the time. Maybe your palate will mature someday. I could never go back that crap again. Think I had my last burger on a road trip from LA to Vegas back in 2001.
What I was saying is just that for people living natural lives they sure are eating bougie food.
@@curiousnomadic you douche bag. I'm 54. Who cares when you ate your last burger. enjoy life and get over yourself.
I want to do this. But it will just be me. Everyone i tell, they say "better get a good job that pays a lot." i think theyre missing the point.
try to live in isolation for a year. I think you're missing the point
I want too. I'm 19 and if I were to choose between living the rest of my life here and living it in nature, I certainly would choose nature. I can only feel sad at the idea of living here for the rest of my life.
U wouldn’t last even a month in complete isolation, you’d literally go insane. humans aren’t built to be alone we need to be around people to stay sane
Onion Hdhdh Yea running into the forest to find happiness won’t work for most. Intentional communities maybe a better path here.
@@eternalexperience2489 Where are you from? I'm 17 and also want to.
How many viewers would love this life, even for the experience of finding your true self?
I'm going to do it in 40 days.
Doing this very soon because of self realization 🙏
@@jacob_the_starseed I'm thinking in the spring. I'm done with the world.
I lived 8 years alone in the woods..came back just before cov9 hit...i came back to earn money for supplies...now i'm trapped...i may just go back anyway n rough it out....videos make it seem easier than it actually is in a forest alone....not all happy care free all the time..
I hear you. At least a person can have some simalance to what use to be normal. So many have depression with COVID
I hope ppl appreciate the simple things in life now.
One just never knows when your world will will seem like incarceration for crimes you never committed. Nature is my escape.
I’ve lived in the woods on my own for years and know exactly what this is like. I’d move there in a heart beat.
Go
@@beasty_b6967 I am excited to start myself. Compost pile for growing food is being made as we speak.
Me too, but you need this and that... People get a false impression about it 🤣 Currency, currency, currency...
@@cheebacheeobusiness3893 Some need currency I want freedom peace and quiet
You ever think you can share some thoughts with me. I have before and plan to go back when my mom passes away. I'm trying to be more prepared in the future.
I am also an IT professional (training) that went about half as deep as these folks. I moved to the forest 4 years ago and am building an off-grid cabin. Though I don't live quite as primitively as these folks do, I share their satisfaction of removing myself from the mainstream and embracing the Intrinsic values over Extrinsic. It has brought me such joy and peace. I always have trouble explaining exactly why I did this, and they did a pretty good job of it.
Beautiful Val : ) xo
Val Groce iam proud of you brother keep living the dream
Did you return to mainstream society or do you still live in the trees? If you returned why?
Val Groce I would like to learn more...🙇
Do you have a guest cabin? I'm ready to clock out of society.
I felt empty most of my life... Only community, relationships and being in nature heals the soul...
And meditation / pranayama
John 3:16
"giving up hope for the mass humanity is like taking a big dump, you feel clean and happy afterwards" LOL
He did not just say that 😂😂
Great job for taking your freedom back and not being a slave to the society. The true meaning of living life. God bless u
The true meaning of living life is living like a Savage?
@@pewwbz9647 you are the savage. You refer to yourself as pewwbz.
@@hankwood4349 for sure!
@@pewwbz9647 Go back to your "smart"phone and facebook - this reality is obviously too much for you to handle.
@@festeringuncle5576 So true.
Wife and I have been off grid for 5 years built a nice cabin off our trees and love our lives. Don't miss the electric bill don't miss the water bill mortgage none of it. And we absolutely love our compost toilet. Off the grid doesn't mean poor and dirty.
Do you work any kind of job or just grow your own food? I dream of something like this.
do u need permit from government?
@@Yeiyn343 I do all kinds of timber work as well as grow and raise our own.
@@incorectulpolitic No permits but we are totally off grid. No power city sewer or water or anything. Well besides our cell phones LOL!
did you repurpose land you already owned to make the cabin and just disconnected all gas/water/electricity or go somewhere else entirely?
This makes me nostalgic for the good parts of my childhood.
I grew up in the woods of the Appalachian mountains; my whole extended family would garden and can our own food. My little brother and all my cousins would play in the woods and make wigwams.
When I got older I was able to run, hike, and bike in the woods and in the mountains.
I love the mountains the only draw back is the lack of jobs and schools.
This is so hilarious to me because Europeans went around the world telling natives they were uncivilized for living off the land. Here we are now. Re-learning the beauty of self sustaining and self reliant existence. My people don't have fancy names for this like Off the grid living and it certainly doesn't have to be this dirty. LIfe smacks of irony.
Lol the people you see in the video can only afford their microcosm of nature thanks to what European civilisation has to offer aside (what will he do if he breaks his leg?) those people are the pure product of the European civilisation: we have become so wealthy that we can afford to quit our job and live the wild dream. Go back to nature, knowing that IF things go wrong, you can always go back to a confortable house with a flat screen TV.
When it starts to fall apart, go back to the beginning of the end
European explorers have always said to do as the natives do in their environment. But what is native exactly? According to the dictionary native is to be born of a place...so doesn't that make everyone who was born in the usa a native American? yes. Get off your high horse and pass the peace pipe. Or maybe you would like to discuss all those 7000 yr old Europeans found in the Windover Florida bogs. There is a bit of history that no one seems to want to address. 7000 yr old Europeans, well over 168 bodies found, in the florida bogs in windover, which changes written history and tells a story very similar to the trail of tears yet in the other direction. You weren't there, I wasn't there, same with the black slavery, its in the fucking past. Its a new level playing field, or is it with all the benefits of being a so called "native" to get to go to college for free while the rest of us who were born here against our will still have to pay because the color of our skin. Fuck your high horse. Wake up, you aren't living in a teepee.
@JessikaEmerald just look up "Florida Bog Bodies," there are 168 bodies in the bogs that are 7000 yrs old. They are European.
Op I agree
I've been living outside for over 30years I'll never go back to living in a over taxed box i live in a boat life's totally free UK based
invite me
Is that even possible they are wasting even more tax money if services were at least funded properly it would be barable.
Really, and how you on TH-cam
ME TOO! If I had family maybe not who knows. All i do know is I CANT live in the rat race anymore. Not lazy by far. if I was its not possible.
We doing this in a caravan in australia runing solar can live on littile coin looking for the right coastal spot to set up permanent
You can live off the grid and have better shelter and be clean.
Pamela Cook it might be good to live in the forest for an adult, but kids its bad because they miss on the interaction with other children and humans, its bad for their development
well you wanna feel connected to nature
Yes been doing it for 2 decades BUT I have found the filthiest people in the so called 'civilized' areas. BTW Do you know how many men 'do not' bother to wash their hands after they pee holding their stuff" ? The fast food society has diminished to such stressed and populated the standard of cleanliness everywhere is one big petri dish of bacteria and toxin's. However yes they in this video seem to marvel in their earthly dirt. Can't imagine even their water for the stream is free of pollution, I filter mine.
Shelter is for the weak, the ocean cleans my skin.
Around the bend just up stream a Sasquatch is crapping in their river of dreams...
I grew up like that in Alaska in the 70's, loved it and can't wait to go back to living that way. loved your video, the people are truly happy and free.
@Em Traveler I like turtles too
Yeah guys there's places like this in Missouri no need to go to the sloppy wet arctic.
@@curiousnomadic do tell
I'd love to go to Alaska but I have reservations about getting a permit to use water that's on my land. Maybe they're generous with how much you can use, that would help.
Alaska has alot of tweakers now
I wake up everyday tired and sick of working for pretty much nothing I wish I could live happy and free
Have mad respect for this man. Hope they thrive!
getting back to nature will improve your life and soul. I'd love to meet those people
I was having some health issues and feeling sick I got back into working out went to a beautiful park everyday then I got into trail hikes in the woods and by the ocean and I have to say it really did wonders for me and my dog lol. even my dog is in spectacular shape she can run all day long and she is totally trim . I would encourage everyone to get back to nature if you can. Lucky I live very close to the woods
Jamie Lc wow I want to try that :)
I love your healing comment. Really trees are amazing for the mind. I have two big Kangal dogs that like to walk in bear territory for all the smells I suppose. I take them at twighlight or at night. There are big old trees along the route we walk. I REALLY look at those trees. I notice them REALLY and in my heart I say hello to them. It's amazing how they "react" to that. Once hey know you can REALLY see them and not just pass them by as a feature of the scenery. They seem to reach for me- minuscule amounts of course and more of a feeling really. But some of them I feel would like to grab me up with their tiny twigs on their long arms and hug me for REALLY seeing them. I look at their trunks sometimes while my dogs sniff around. It's a most incredible design: bark. In it are millions of little bugs that make their homes. In the branches are birds and squirrels. So many beings a tree looks after. Each one is really a saint. There is a sadness I feel when walking along in places where trees are planted like on roads. I am glad there are trees. But sometimes I feel their deep yearning to be natural: to grow in large, unbound groves with others of their type. There is great magic in natural places. It is the greatest healer and the greatest awakened there is. In that moment, it truly is heaven. Peace. Thanks for your comment. Sometime call a cloud. Talk to it from your heart and give it praise for its beauty. It may come closer. You may be able to invite it to do many things. That's how weather controllers get their start. Whatever you learn, please benefit all beings. I know you will. I am a mother of 5 grown children. I have learned so much watching them and their age group friends. Technology is important. But so is nature. I think we can combine these carefully and with compassion. Much love, Butterfly
yes it's a bit of a long story but that's the short version of it.I gave. I always worked out my whole life.I got hurt at work and was feeling very sick. I would work come home shower eat sleep. on my days off I'd sleeep. life was not like it was.
Then I hurt my ankle badly for over 6 months and could Barley walk. Stressed out with life and personal things going on.
I decided to focus on myself. I was researching stretching , exercises and things I could do for my health issues and I started getting massages and I got back to nature by walking in a big beautiful park with lovely trails trees rivers. its a very uplifting place, safe and convenient. very close to the massage clinic.
The beauty and fresh air and moderate interaction with people was good for me and my soul. The first walk I felt physically horrible but I knew that would be the case. I just enjoyed the fresh air and nature and the quiet. I kept on doing that and other physical activities. I met young as well as old people add talked. It really helped my spirits. I was able to take a deep breath and relax and get some oxygen and just come back to myself to let everything go. As I got better I started getting into woods trails by the ocean they have way less people but are so peaceful. once you get on the trail you can just breathe and relax. your getting the good negative ions. fresh air the beautiful ocean , nature. I really think it helps your health, physically and mentally.
When I'm there I can't describe it I feel free. I feel at peace. I feel relieved.
I don't have the financial means to stay out and live there but I get out all the time just to get exercise and get the fresh air and its great. I always tell people"I'm getting back to nature" That they should try it.
It will bring you back and renew you.
Yes if you are able I would encourage it. I can relate to the man's feelings in the video. I feel like I'm just not happy and I'm working on it. I just don't like the typical rat race and focus on material possessions. I want to be in a place where I can enjoy life and feel that I can just be apperiated for me and that is more than enough. I don't want to an economic slave. I think this world just does not have certain things figured out just yet.
man I'm so done with the rat race
@Robert Hays Me too. I'm 19. I think working and saving for a few years probably until my 30's then find a way to move into nature.
Same, so glad I have land. Partner isn’t so desirable for the same roughness I am, but I can negotiate some he inherited the land after all.
Check out Riley and Elayna @ th-cam.com/video/TKm2FX9kKZ4/w-d-xo.html
And the rat race is done with you so fuck off into the woods already, weirdo.
@@yeahtbh.161 - You sound miserable.
I am tired of living in chaotic places with selfish, greedy, and corrupt people. And seriously considering this life.
Too bad "off the grid" in South Florida means living in the Everglades with the alligators lol.
@James the Truther LOL :P your right I might even meet the famous Florida bigfoot named Skunk Ape.
Lmaoo truuo
Or California in the desert lol
Sounds adventurous to me, I have never seen an alligator, or sharks, or oceans because it simply doesn't exist in my region. 😆😄
You either struggle in a city, or you struggle in the country. I prefer the country for many things.
@Christina Reynolds What do you love about city life? Also what do you do for a living?
It takes a special person to be able to live like a primitive animal. I am not one.
@Christina Reynolds "The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of democracy, a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not dream of escape. A system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, slaves would love their servitude."
Christina Reynolds - You’re lost in the illusion.
Christina Reynolds - Oh dear, how cute. You’re a cherry picker. I said the same thing the guy above me said in one sentence but my response didn’t sit well with you. lol you’re silly.
happiness is the goal. if the city makes you happy, that is great. If the bush makes you happy, that is also great. Both could potentially provide you what you want if what you want is happiness... it just depends on what makes you happy.
Exactly man, some people are really happy living in this connected, fast-paced and modern world. The internet has provided me with valuable information and connections with people I would have never met would I have been living in the woods.
I think people "like" to live in the cities because it serves as a safe space for the domesticated. You lose a sense of self awareness and start to lack essential human skills. You resort to paper money to have someone provide the needs and the skills you have lost. Now this is a weak society and one that is completely unnatural washed over with sadness and full of mental diseases. This is the society I want to live in because it is healthier. Cities are destructive and unnatural and full of weak minded people.
@@clammerify I agree with you on that. if i had all day to sit here and argue with the idiots who think that child is un cared for and miserable because shes dirty i would but shes probably happier and healthier than any city kid who's surround buy the toxins every day life like fast foods drugs chemicals gmo crap ...i would have loved growing up like this and raising my kids in nature
Yes but it is a illusion of thought itself you really don't need anything society's brainwashing
"Happiness" is a garbage goal.
Aligning yourself as much as you possibly can with objective truth and reality is far better, and often has a symptom of deep satisfaction, which much better and longer lasting than "happiness"
6:04 I love how self-aware he's being. He's acknowledging the things he misses from everyday society, and is recognizing the advantages he has that he took from it (dental health, a good start, etc.). He's not denying problems that come with living in the woods, and that shows he's not being some sort of daydream-blinded realist.
The thought of doing this is weighing more on my mind everyday and already know it won't be easy and probably even cry sometimes but it would be so mu h better then this failure of a world that man has made
@MV I don't have the skills and knowledge to do it on my own. And so much land it owned by someone that you always have to be watching out and keeping stealth. Hard to do that when you need fire. Owning land is the best way but can't do that right now. Seems like this world has got us trapped right where it wants us.
@@claycarpenter8625 me too. our only purpose to me seems to be getting worked to death until we're useless, and then our kids will be made to do the same thing.
@@antimatteranon exactly!!
@@antimatteranonI've come to the same conclusion as well.
“Giving up on hope for humanity is like having a massive dump” oh my gosh, what a relief 😅
in some islands here, there are literally communities that are still off the grid for hundreds of years.
Iron Hand North Sentinel island is the best example.
Some grids are worse than others.
Women like sparrow are hard to find..
It seems she doesn't need a man though..
I wonder what she smells like though 🤔
@@Michael-zy1dj oh boi
Eon1213 natural beauty 💜
She's beautiful. I tried to google her, that's how messed up I am.
beautiful. i’ve wanted to live this way since i was a little kid. this gives me that final push to just do it
We would never meet people like this without TH-cam.
thats crazy! I met Sparrow in college so cool to see she's doing it
Is her name really sparrow
Girl is pure smoke
@@roarrrist Yeah, her full name is Sparrow R. Etarded.
@@wurstblinker7364 She got imaginative parents
She feel kind of have a psycho vibe, am i imagining things.
I wanted so much more from this video, like a way longer video just on these people. They are just so refreshing. Why did you make the video so short NBC?
So that you get the message AND get off your screen maybe?
@@johnathann87 good point
@@johnathann87 hahahaha
Cuz it's fake...
Just turned 28 this month, been working my whole life. Ever since I left home at 18. Always been an outdoorsman, I am sooooo sick of the society that most of us live in today. Physically and mentally sick, I just want to move out in the sticks. Lived in Alabama my whole life, fishing - hunting all is second nature to me. I’m a loner, not very socially active - just me and my dogs living day by day. Living to die and dying to live. I feel like I’m stuck in a endless loop, like I just need to move one foot forward but I’m dragging a truck behind me. It really sucks being 28, no family left alive and no friends. I was quite popular in high school, played ball since peewees. After I hit about 20-21 years of age I just changed. Been a loner ever since. I don’t go out to eat, don’t go to any type of social gatherings. However I do live in the country, I struggle to pay bills and rent etc. I’m just ready to leave it behind, start new. The sticks are calling me.
Stay true to yourself my dude, the price will be eventually paid off as time goes on. I wish the best for all of us!
5:02 "people are like robots" absolutely true
I've been homesteading for 5 years myself I love what you guys are doing keep up the good work and stay safe more importantly stay happy
Guys? There is females there too...
I wanna go... I say the same thing every morning... I hate my Job....I wanna LIVE my life. Instead I'm Counting the days to 60 yrs. old (my planned early retirement) for the next 9 yrs. will be wasting my life waiting. And what if my health is deteroriated by then? That's how our Government wants it.... they keep your SS funds when we die before we can draw on it.....(I'm single)
Well thinking
u make ur own choices man nothings holding you back just you are.
Good luck man. God bless. We only have a short time. So think fast and live with no regrets.
Dependence on the government is the #1 Fail Factor. Social security may not (most likely, Will Not!) be in your future. Your life is in YOUR own hands, not the government. Live life now!
Kinda sad how we call 60 early retirement lol
my friends dad once said life is about your attitude ,I quote this often to my children .Looks like these people all have a great attitude to life :) regards from New Zealand.
I DID drop my phone (and my TV) about 14 years ago and never looked back. Honestly, I did not miss either of them. Since I was still working at the time, I could not go live in the woods, but I was simply AMAZED at how much happier I was without the phone and TV. Life became SO MUCH EASIER! I had my own solitude at last. It was, and IS, amazing how much my life imporoved. Just recently I bought a 2nd property far out into the woods (I live in the suburbs now, backed up against a nature preserve and I go walking for miles on the trails), but I will soon be on my 2nd property and sell my suburban home. Life just gets better and better. I could not even IMAGINE this wonderful life before I tossed my cell phone an TV. But it made all the difference. People make excuses for why they can't do that and they remain miserable. How long has man had cell phones? Ask yourself that question and stop making excuses as to why you can't toss your cell phone.
You can still keep clean, living in nature and squatting in mud are different things. Hygiene is beautiful, rich,poor, or living outdoors.
@Straight Flyer no they arent. you cant compare someone not washing their hands after using the toilet to this kid who hasnt had a wash in a month. so stop with your nonsense
@@Devils-advocate78 / ha, haaaaaa.....I observe people all of the time in public bathrooms that never wash their hands after using the toliet. So much for modern society & hygiene
@@alibertylover not washing your hands after one trip to the bathroom isnt going to kill you . infact you wouldnt even be able to tell just by looking at someones hands that they didnt wash them after using the bathroom. how many times do you think this kid has been to the bathroom since the last time her hands were washed?
@@Devils-advocate78 Have you ever taken a kid out in the woods and just let them play? They look the same as this kid after about an hour!
Did you happen to see the shower at about 6:00?
@@jim.h yes i have and no they do not! dont lie. can you seriously not see the difference between dirt that is there from an afternnon playing and dirt on top of dirt on top of grime on top of dirt. i dont even know why im having this conversation. you can all see that this is not from playing in the woods
wow....I live in a very small town anyway and to live like that would be like heaven to me. I am completely moved by the inspiration of your group. That's the right way to live.
Shad Oria definately....the problem w society is they have lost touch w nature and reality....I'm glad to see places like this coming to help us all learn how hard it really is to survive. Its awesome.
I'm in Arizona. I haven't heard of anything like that here. But if you or someone knows of one of these places here.....please let me know. And thank you.
Moonlit 99 -
really, even dirty?
@@moonlit9924 me too👍👍
Precious areas preserved, creating a new environment as our great grandparents enjoyed. Our grandkids need to experience that joy. Slow living, close to environment is a gift. ❤
Have cancer and would love to experience this before my time comes. I was born in the woods of South Eastern Kentucky with only my brothers to play with. After a life in urban America I’m ready to live it again!
I hope you (were or) are still able to do this
Never worked for pension ,retirement fond,never had credit card,traweled arround whole world b4 turned 25 just to see WE ARE ALL the SAME!!! Goverments say we are not,but we know they lie a lot! One can NOT know thyself truly,if not alone for some time...vibrate higher dig deeper. Love to all dimensions and perceptions out there from Slovenija.
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Nah..... I'm not the "same" as everyone else. My DNA profile proves that. Only the sheep thinks like other sheep
I hear ya
Great video Left Field, one of my favorites you've done so far!
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“Hope for humanity I gave that up a long time ago. Giving up hope is like taking a great big good dump. You just feel clean and done afterwards” Damn
That's what it is to truly be human. So beautiful.
Good. So good. Would love to see your garden and food planning. So much more to see in this beautiful group.
I am African and Native American and I live in a tiny cabin in the woods on property I purchased. I live up the hill from a tiny town. I bring Culligan water home in BP free containers along with other supplies. I grow my own food and even donate it to local food pantries, elderly, those in need and disabled. I use solar, an energy making invention and both wood and propane. My small income is more than efficient since my only utility bill cost is less than $40 a month when the temperatures hit the minuses. I spend my free time helping people. The woodland creatures around me don't bother me at all. The foxes, coy-wolves, eagles, bears, etc are excellent neighbors. The only creature that is dangerous to me is the same creature that was dangerous to my ancestors, the racist people down the hill. They shoot at me, have called the police on me for false reasons (a term called "swatting"), they claim bogus code infractions which I fought and won, to have my daughter taken which cost the county a lot of money and she now graduated at the top of her class and is in an ivy league university, they even vandalize my car so much that it is on it's last leg and to have me arrested and jailed on false charges for the first time in my life which I fought and won after nearly a month in jail. I have mostly all my teeth and get dressed up for worship. I am also educated and am a retired banker. You can live in society and still live naturally as I do, and still comb your hair, brush your teeth and bath. Sometimes I choose not to but again that is a choice. But like he said, when you are nonwhite, this country is very unfair if you live outside the demanded norm. I don't drink, smoke or take drugs and I stay to myself most of the time. But my neighbors are very dangerous for me to even speak with other than to say hi and bye. So be warned if you are a supposed "minority". But I love my lifestyle. And I still talk on the phone, play video games and watch movies on my devices. 😛
What would suggest to young people who wish to live like this without the means to buy their own land?
There are two things that exist in the human soul ,fear and love we are motivated by every day in are lives. your actions are out of love towards nature and life that you created for yourself. don't let their fear ruin your love, i wish you all the best .
@Borg Online. If we are going to throw super ignorant general statements.... ironically I think in "Africa" one will face just as much discrimination or even more
Borg Online you really are a twat. Damn the world would be a better place without your kind.
Johnny Kababayan you are another kind of shit head racist aren't you. Just as bad but a different colour.
We can live something in-between this and the cell phone obsessed life. You don't have to go to either extreme.
2:30
"Last year the average American spent 11 hours in front of a screen" I'm assuming this means each day?
Yes, work PC + mobile + TV.
Ironic that I’m looking at this video on an IPhone.
Busting on technology and yet they set up a blog and site to get clicks. Last time here on this site. Plus I can't stand all the anti establishment "woke" comments.
it's hard to believe. I guess if you work a 9 hour shift and let something play on tv for 2 hours, you've already reached 11.
I wish I could do this. I spent 3 months camping last year. I miss the wilderness.
of course they don't show the winter. it get very cold in NC
It is 😫
I listen to this video while I work my 8:00-6 job for minimal wage and have visions of myself living like this one day and the day goes by so fast, i can repeat every word in this video that’s how many times I’ve had this on repeat.
That bear skull was beautiful. It's so awesome that more and more people are using all parts of animals.
off grid shouldn't necessarily mean lack of hygiene.... :/
*edit* :
My family has an off grid cabin on a small island where I spent the majority of my childhood. No water etc. I was clean nevetheless because my mum always bathed us in the evening. I know what I am talking about. I am not just a grossed out city hen.
Veronika girl they can’t shower every morning.... plus living in nature they’re surrounded by dirt, plants and animals......
they would have to waste a lot of water on that
@@spheresartis1782 - they have a creek so there is plenty of water available.
floop tv herpaderp, shut up, Telling people to shower while they live in a forest because theyre dirty is even more stupid
Agreed. They have the creek. Having dirt around your mouth & on your hands will make them a carrier for parasites/worms.
I will say though that sparrow is very pretty and she has beautiful hair.
agreed
she sounds like a dumb millennial hippy
@@buteos8632 no, she doesn't
She’s gorgeous
Hippy girls are often very easy to talk to ;)
You are still yourself Gina I literally loved your free spirit attitude, you were different from everyone else and I so enjoyed that...while I was a freshman at Lesley In Boston, didn’t fit in while I was there but you always knew how to make people feel comfortable and I enjoyed our one on one chats..So glad you are living your best life! You were a wonderful person then and still are:) much love
I know her too! She’s fantastic! We lived at this community together. It’s called Wildroots.
@@flashlightwashcloth7283 if you see her tell her, Pete who wore a bath robe in the smoking area says hi. Lol 😂
This sounds absolutely amazing
Do you have more videos of these people and their lives? Love the whole understanding of the message about life
This reminds me of seeing a tent city built by the homeless. Sad little shacks and people who have worn out clothing and no place to bathe. But to be fair I've seen homeless in my city that looked much cleaner than these people, and they wear shoes.
I don't understand how they can have access to water but stay so dirty. And just because the stream looks clean and beautiful doesn't mean it's free from bacteria or animal feces. Many animals like to poop in water for some reason.
This isn't "off grid" it's depressing.
Yep gotta love that irony
Did you know your drinking water is recycled from the water you flush in your toilet? With all the turds and everything else people dump down it but we know the city cleans up for us, don't we?
@@fixitright9709 dude I have well water so I feel confidant it's 'turd' free, lol. but you're not wrong
@Terry Waller I think they asked the pretty girl to shower for the camera. They wanted to show the shower they rigged up and show the girl. Ratings matter right? But I get the feeling showers are not seen as a daily need by these folks, it's a rarity. They seem comfortable as-is. I couldn't stand it. My husband showers often too, says if he doesn't he gets a "diaper rash" in his man area on hot summer days. I've been hearing how uncomfortable hot, sweaty balls are for over 20 years. lol. I'm just happy I married a clean man.
@@sweetpie7919 ,,,,, haha! Turd free!, I had well water when I lived in the country in the Carolinas best water ever had, test the water here in this god-forsaken city and every pharmaceutical you can imagine will show up
I always find myself coming back to this video
This is truly a mind healthy way to live life along with the difficulties that comes with it, so either way there are tradeoffs. Letting go is the only problem both ways of living have in common.
"Hope for the mass of humanity I gave that up a long time ago, and I feel like giving up hope is a lot like taking a great big good dump, you just kinda feel clean and done afterwards. Yupp"
These communities will be more prominent in the future
thinking the same thing.
Is happening already! Yahoo
There will be alot of those in the near future...
@@mattortiz8141 Is there an echo in here?
I see a lot around my town they’re called homeless camps.
I was looking for something like this, since I am planning to sell everthing and just leave this year. Far away, it will not be easy fora woman alone. But I see so much in life, I think this is it. This is what life is for 😊
God bless these people. I wish I lived in a small tribe that could just be themselves. Left a 👍
Something happened to me last summer that was a blessing in disguise. Riding on my scooter back from the Shonan coast beaches, my bag carrying my iPhone fell off the back and I didn't realize it until I got back home. Looked for it but never found it and thus began my life without a smart phone again. Such an amazing thing to get back some control in my life without constantly looking at that stupid thing.
I never had a smart phone I just use this old desk top sometimes! Where is Shonan coast beaches?
@@michaelcraig9449 Shonan is the area southwest of Tokyo in Kanagawa Prefecture Japan.
Bearded Blueberry Farmer - What great fortune to lose your phone. ;-) You are to be envied for letting it go.
I think sparrow is Freakin beautiful!!!!
@Matt Borel Don't be so superficial, my friend. Besides BO=French cologne
OMG yes
I'd love to live like this, may God bless you all.
Love those hints of Sparrow’s music... sounds from the fringe; would love to hear more. It beckons to a part of me also yearning to be ‘freer,’ if not totally free in that way.
I have been waiting to live like this my whole life and still do .
Buy some acreage out in the back country of your state is step one. You can make it happen if it's on your heart
Have lived so several times in my life. It is very enjoyable yet never sustained. Sometimes it is the neighbours sometimes, it is some one in the group. People tend to be stupid. Then there is the weather. I have been on the move since 2015, when I retired. 🇪🇸
the video paints a very idealistic view. Drinking water from the stream in the sun. Nature can inflict pain also. That's why cities were built in the first place. The last comments were very telling. He admits they are still very much dependant on the industrial world but if they can make it work good luck to them
I love this video. Very inspiring ❤️👏🏽👍🏽
There is beauty both in advanced technology and sustainable living. For some people, the extremes appeal to them. But I think the key here is to find balance and happiness in life. And be more conscious of others and the environment.
I was that kid shoving leaves up the nose in the 70s on a alternative commune. I live and work in the city now but visit every few months with the intention of returning when I have enough money saved for basics for the rest of my life. I see people driving around in cars worth more than I will need for the rest of my life! Real wealth is being connected to nature and good friends, no drugs or belief systems or religions to infect nature. It's about balancing the scales, extreme off grid or extreme city stress will make you unhappy. I still love aspects of civilisation, modern health care is great, space exploration, aspects of education etc, but feel genetically we are completely wired for small social groups with natural surroundings, living off grid on a community fits. However, it's not an escape! You'll face yourself and others emotions way more than you will in a busy life, small things are seen as big things because everything is amplified ten fold. Every community has political issues, even a small off grid community, apply a balance of alone time too.
Make sure the zombies don't keep you in their city of filth.
this.
I absolutely love ass.
"No drugs, or belief systems or religion"
Because ancient and modern peoples who lived off the land had none of those.
Gtfoh with that weak shit, Pol Pot.
I love how you're more or less in agreement with the Nazis now.
You can also be capable of living off the grid without being this pretentious.
This.
How dare you not respect these homeless bums. They enlightendly cash their welfare checks
@@ConquerCollin oh dear...
Lol! It is a bit annoying, especially the vocal-fry chicks who seem so blase and dismissive of all us city folks. Puhleeeze. I'd love to see them in a couple years.
You fucking idiots. It's only pretentious if you're in your ego, and that's because your life is pretentious! Tell me, what the fuck is pretentious about not being egotistical? Which clearly they aren't..
I was moved to see this young lady sparrow living the dream that others would simply be to afraid to except. I too am more then ready to give it all up and find a place where I can live in piece.
We need more people like them in this world it would be a better place.....
If I moved to the forest I wouldn't be afraid of a bear or wolf I'd be more afraid of my mom coming to kill me...
Are you Mexican?
You obviously haven't lived with a bear
Good 1
Breenud39 TV
I'll be afraid of just my mom coming to find me
😀
I would love to live like this...
Wonderful portrait of an authentic lifestyle 🙂
Beautiful, thank you !
Loving the dogs..animals forests..awesome video🎂
Simply human being
That’s how a lot of indigenous tribes live in my country Honduras. What a beautiful life ❤️
4:04 ...best quote ever!!!!!
And here we are, watching this on our f*cking computers, hooked up to wi-fi. Nice.
Yeah with showers and toilets and running clean hot water and clean warm beds with Netflix and free from mosquitoes... Oh man this is horrible...
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Explanation:
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gather with me scatters.'' He gave us the law (Ten Commandments) not to make us righteouss, but
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He said ‘’it is finished’’ (John 19:30), which means He paid the fine for our sins
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Sparrow is so beautiful honestly, she looks so pure, I love her clothes, hair, piercing, tattoo, anklets and pureness. Would love to meet her!
So you think you'd have something to learn from a brainwashed Communist-Anarchist wannabe that's hiding in the woods somewhere? Boy do I hope that you're studying psychology or something. And what exactly is so "pure" about this Sparrow (not her real name)? I really want to know.
@@davidcobra1735 She never mentioned her political stances. You seem very angry. Would you like a hug? Perhaps a turkey sandwich and tall glass of iced tea? Mr. Rogers loves you and I love you, brother.
@@jacob_ian_decoursey_the_author Hahahaha! I love how you didn't actually answer my questions. I'm not mad, I'm just aggravated and perplexed by your stupidity soyboy. I'm also really tired of shitty fucking far leftist propaganda, as are most people.
@@davidcobra1735 We've got a malfuctioning dipshit here, folks.
@UC96fw8dlT6R6RQ2_wkOvnQw fuck you . you brainwashed right wing refugee . these people are trying to do the best thing possible and you still hate them. go to your sick job and unhealthy lifestyle and leave us alone
They look so natural and healthy, beautiful!
I grew up on a self sustaining commune and as a kid didn’t realize that my life was “different”. To each his own but for ME personally something a little more moderate would be more sustainable...there’s nothing wrong with some creature comforts and modern amenities...
This is damn good cinematography and dialog. This is one of the most satisfying off the grid videos I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot. Also I want to marry that woman. Thats a unicorn right there.
Bring lots of soap and show her how it is used first.
@@lancejensen9328 She is literally taking a shower in the vid dude.. xD I think she know's how
the one with the beard ?
me first
@@mrunconventional i sure hope she is
Beautiful lifestyle. You'd have to be an enlightened soul to do what these people are doing. Being close to nature is like being drawn back to our source. Thanks for sharing this.
This seems and feels right in so many ways
I lived in Nelson BC and the Slocan Valley for years. I use to pick up hitch hikers that gave up everything to live like this in little communities. I am now going to join them
Come on people. They are fixing cars, and blacksmithing - no wonder their hands and faces are dirty - Duh!
They seem a tad too stupid for that. Not really buying it all. Seems like vice made it, tend to "dramatize" reality by placing certain individuals into areas. They're all so well spoken and well rounded. Well adjusted too. Ex-techies who happen to be good with their hands and practical mechanics? Hard to believe. 4/10 tbqh famalam.
@@cowboyanimal6700 Yeah, it's absurd to think a former engineer is smart enough to figure out how to do blacksmithing or any practical mechanics. That's just crazy talk.
@@trugrit7210 I know right!? That'd be like expecting the engineers sitting in Nasa's control room to be fully trained astronauts.
@@cowboyanimal6700 Excellent analogy, bro. Practical mechanics or blacksmithing is just as intellectually demanding a field as becoming an astronaut. An engineer would be totally lost making a cabinet, too. These dummies aren't smart enough to follow directions.
@@trugrit7210 Thanks Brah! I'm so glad you agree with me friendo. I can't even imagine them being able to figure out how to use a compass, nevermind blacksmithing. XD
I walked at 46. I worked in London as a Finance Director and had been unhappy for a long time....long hours, stress, commuting, living in a city. Then one evening after I'd chaired a conference I looked around the room at all the other Finance Directors, many of whom were older than me, and thought "Do I want to be here in 20 years?".
I resigned, sold my house, moved to Brittany and now live in a farmhouse. I'm not as unplugged from the.modern world as the people in the video but my time is my own and I'm close to nature on my land and surrounding forest. Like them I'm lucky to have made the money though I'm not as bitter or left wing. I also drink milk and hate soy 😁. The modern world has extended lifespan and is safer and more secure than at any past age. We need to acknowledge that.
Just walking my dog along the river as the sun rises and mist is on the water is heaven....back in London at the same time I would be on the Tube or stuck in traffic having already been awake planning my day for a couple of hours.
No comparison.
Nice story. I think you have a better balance than others. You don’t have to sleep in the dirt to go back to nature.
I'm about to exit the rat race. I still want to buy a nice little place in nature and not be totally off grid
such an awesome short film of how we should be living a little
I am moving in the forest myself. Good thing there is flat land nearby to grow me some food .