 Kaczynski 's original goal was to move out to a secluded place and become self @-@ sufficient so that he could live autonomously . He began to teach himself survival skills such as tracking , edible plant identification , and how to construct primitive technologies such as bow drills . After watching the wild land around him be destroyed by development and industry , he decided it was impossible to live in nature . He performed isolated acts of sabotage and initially targeted the developments near his cabin . The ultimate catalyst which drove him to begin his campaign of bombings was when he went out for a walk to one of his favorite wild spots , only to find that it had been destroyed and replaced with a road . About this , he said : 
