In Into the Wild, what are some quotes that support the idea of Chris McCandless as hero?

This
question could be somewhat difficult or even problematic to answer if a reader doesn't at all
agree with calling McCandless a hero; however, McCandless is very similar to men from American
history who were quite revered for their eccentricities and passion for nature and isolation.
Men like Henry David Thoreau and John Muir would be good examples, and Krakauer does not shy
away from those comparisons in his text.

His ambivalence
toward sex echoes that of celebrated others who embraced wilderness with single-minded
passionThoreau (who was a lifelong virgin) and the naturalist John Muir, most prominentlyto say
nothing of countless lesser-known pilgrims, seekers, misfits, and adventurers. Like not a few of
those seduced by the wild, McCandless seems to have been driven by a variety of lust that
supplanted sexual desire. His yearning, in a sense, was too powerful to be quenched by human
contact. McCandless may have been tempted by the succor offered by women, but it paled
beside...