Best Alternative Living Quotes

"It's like a timeshare... but it's basically a farm."

"Living with her dream family, it's kind of like a witch living the regular life, doing odd jobs and getting by that way."

"It's so cool to see broken-down trucks salvaged for homes."

"I'd rather be poor in a van than poor in a house."

"You're highly skeptical of anything that's fed to you as being just the way things are; you're always open to the idea that there could be a different, better, kinder, more enlightening way to live, and you're always willing to at least try for it."

"If you really want a different way of life..."

"We are finished as a society it's over I just go to the the pods hotels in Japan get yourself some slap therapy get yourself a nice tiny home in the suburbs."

"Some families and individuals use caravans or tents as holiday homes. Others invest in large RVs. Then there are those who see rocks and think, 'Oh, that would make a nice home.'"

"Just live in a van, there's a lot more dignity."

"Living in vehicles, that is a major thing that people do all across the country."

"Instead of doing that while we had a chance, we were gonna hit the road instead."

"We came across this little school bus and first we threw in a bed and then we threw in some curtains and then I kinda all snowballed from there."

"I built a larger school bus mirror and I did and that's been our full-time home."

"Living in a van just seemed like a cool option."

"The main thing we've learned is that 9 to 5 is not the only way to live."

"Imagine if you could make a place like this your home, complete with electricity and running water."

"I've always looked at off-grid living as a shortcut, as long as you're willing to sweat and learn."

"Let someone live in your backyard if you can't find a roommate."

"It's an alternative mindset, an alternative community."

"Tiny homes, motor homes, and caravans are all the rage these days."

"Sleeping in a van is honestly... it's very peaceful for me."

"We're the Indie Projects Bee and Theo and we've been living and traveling the world in Vance for the past six years."

"The biggest Pro of living in a yurt: how much money you can save building a yurt compared to a traditional home."

"I actually wasn't looking into van life. I was looking into buying an RV and just some circumstances changed things."

"When we completely disconnect our survival from the system, that's when we start creating New Earth."

"If you don't want to make a difference in the world, go move to another planet. I mean, why? What are you here for, you know? Why just don't move to Pluto?"

"Space habitats seem to have a huge amount of benefits compared to planetary colonies."

"Living in this bus has been a complete joy."

"For the upwardly mobile gadget lover in need of more space, but with a long-held distrust of builders, planning permission, and the all-round rigmarole, there's a one-word solution: a pod."

"...we knew that we wanted to continue living tiny whether it's a shipping container on land or a 40-foot bus."

"When I say that I'm living in a van, most people respond to it pretty positively to be honest."

"Something that drew us to living in an ambulance."

"I call it a 12-foot box so this is the rig that I've converted into my tiny home."

"We just really love the idea of living a little bit differently and simply."

"Honestly, living in a van when you have kind of all the amenities that I do with a sink, oven, toilet, gaming setup, bed, it's almost exactly the same as living in a normal house with a small caveat—you have to find a place to put your home every single night."

"You're not giving up anything staying on a boat, so that's really nice. It can be just as nice as your home."

"The house offers an opportunity to model an alternative way of living to my children."

"I would totally live in this bus conversion."

"People could do this in jail, that's right. People can do it in vans, they could do it anywhere."

"Hitchin provides a historic and culturally rich alternative to London living."

"Rochester provides a historic and culturally rich alternative to London living."

"This is the time to move into a tiny home."

"Thirty-eight thousand dollars a year and you can live on this cruise ship guys, that's a little over three thousand dollars a month."

"The Dome is a halfway, bigger than a tiny home, definitely alternative living, the best of both worlds."

"It's about your living systems, what is it like to live full time in a vehicle as your house for months and months, that turns into years and years."

"Could we live in a van full time and actually improve our lives?"

"...during this pause many people are looking at their lives and saying, hey, you know, maybe there's another way to live, maybe we don't have to live in this state of frenzy."

"I want anyone out there looking for another way of living to know that you were not alone and that there are thousands of ways you can do it."

"Since 2005, all three of them have explored a free-form life of interesting projects, side businesses, and adventures."

"...you take the intentional community and it's like okay now you're kind of free of that."

"This system isn't working for me. Van life, stepping outside, communal living, all these things that have long been dismissed, they're starting to resurge and seem more attractive."

"We are demonstrating to the world that there is an alternative way of living."

"Christiania endured for over 50 years, a testament to the power of community resistance and alternative living."

"I get so inspired by all of these individuals and their life choices and how they have embraced a different way of living."

"We moved into a converted school bus and are planning to do one last epic tour of the US before we drive all the way down to our land in an eco community in Costa Rica."

"I realized that I could live in a van, not have to pay rent or mortgage, and not have to be a slave to the corporate world."

"Really, we can live like this? People really do live this way, huh? This sounds like something I want to try."

"The gospel... creates a people with an upside-down set of values, a whole alternate way of being human."

"Ultimately living on a boat is amazing."

"It's such a different type of living than what we are led to believe we should be living in North America."

"We love to meet people from all walks of life, especially when they have chosen an alternative way to live."

"There is another way in which you can live that does not create suffering."

"I think a caboose like this would make a perfect tiny home."

"I was always into alternative living; I really enjoyed camping growing up."

"This channel is all about alternative living and doing life a little bit differently where work isn't just the core focus."

"I wanted to come out here to see that there was another way of living."

"Slab City, California: Referred to by its residents as the last free place in America."

"The Jameson family wanted to live on the mountains with a shipping container house."

"We want to see if it's possible to do something different to the rat race; currently, we're only living for the weekends or going on holiday once a year."

"This is tiny home heaven, and we've always wanted to say that."

"We do have a wonderful home life, regardless if we live in a tent."

"I take you on tours of unique homes and showcase stories of people living alternatively."

"Screw a tiny house, this is great."

"Bus life has definitely lived up to what I imagined it would be."

"It's important these days to talk about an alternative living that is not just sustainable, it's great."

"Can you believe we've been living in a bus for an entire year?"

"Knowing everything that we know now, if we go back and do it all over again, would we convert a bus again?"

"Soper and Maxwell are operating in a space beyond that, articulating a vision of a new way of living where people get the things they need to survive and thrive completely outside of some hacked and hotwired commodity market."

"I love this camper. I feel like camper life or just living out of a bus or cars is actually becoming more common."

"We transformed the Empire by living such an extraordinarily exquisitely alternate lifestyle; we literally transformed history."