Surely we're being a bit civil by partaking on Steem :P 

I've gone to very wild extremes. Eating nothing else than wild plants, roots and flowers, living in a self made refuge that was only branches, mud and pieces of recycled material I found here and there. 

But it becomes a sort of bubble as well and a sort of war you fight alone against society. Because you know people out there are having a blast, listening to music, hanging out with other beautiful people, making love, tasting delicious food, and wrecking the Earth in the process. And you feel more alone because no one gives a damn about what they do to the Earth, and they care less about your efforts to return to its ways and be a part of the solution.

On spring and summer wilderness is amazing and you have nothing to long from the social world, but winter... oh the winter in the wild is nothing so romantic as it is portrayed in movies.

Nonetheless I plan to go back into the wilderness at some point and see if I've grown as a person enough to be part of Nature. If things get nasty, I'll have no shame in returning to civilization again to keep learning. And that's what I mean by balance, to be able to seek out what you need from both worlds until they can be integrated, I see no other way for anything to change.

All that said, I'm glad to know someone values and honors the wild the way you do!