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“The old school of thought would have you believe that you'd be a fool to take on nature without arming yourself with every conceivable measure of safety and comfort under the sun. But that isn't what being in nature is all about. Rather, it's about feeling free, unbounded, shedding the distractions and barriers of our civilization—not bringing them with us.”

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Book:The Ultralight Backpacker : The Complete Guide to Simplicity and Comfort on the Trail
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“The trail was designed to have no end, a wild place on which to be comfortably lost for as long as one desired. In those early days nobody fathomed walking the thing from beginning to end in one go. Section hikes, yes. Day hikes, too. But losing yourself for five months, measuring your body against the earth, fingering the edge of mental and physical endurance, wasn’t the point. The trail was to be considered in sections, like a cow is divided into cuts of beef. Even if you sample every slice, to eat the entire beast in a single sitting was not the point. Before 1948, it wasn’t even considered possible.”

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Book:Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
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“Nobody warned me about this part. When I envisioned my trip, I imagined exciting adventures, exotic locales, a jet-set lifestyle. I never thought grief and doubt would climb into my backpack and come with me. I pictured standing at the top of the Sun Gate, looking down at Machu Picchu, without ever thinking about the steps it would take to get there. This is the curse of wanderlust, when the postcard image becomes a brutal reality.”

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Book:Braver Than You Think: Around the World on the Trip of My (Mother’s) Lifetime
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“That night in our tent, Justin told me how, ten thousand years ago, human beings were migrant—we were like the birds. The average human would see only about a hundred people in her lifetime and would know each one profoundly, deeply bonded. Today, humans in cities will see a hundred beings in just minutes, naming them strangers, a dehumanizing designation. The next morning, I woke to wet rocks glittering in the slanted light, the day’s warmth shining in bars through the sparse canopy of maples. Happy here, I began to fear our next destination, hectic Manhattan—a surreal flip to witnessing ten thousand people a day. In these deep thickets, we walked a path that was streamlined, simple and clear.”

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Author:Aspen Matis
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“Whenever I think of these things, I feel an exquisite pang of longing. I feel oddly depressed; it's almost like I know too much simply to be in the moment anymore, to enjoy what I used to relish so uncritically. I'm aware that there is a bigger, far more complicated world out there than I'd ever realized, and just like the students at Beijing University, I've glimpsed it only fleetingly, peripherally. I've sensed the vast expanse of my own ignorance now. I feel antsy and constricted and a deep, almost sexual yearning for velocity, for some sort of raw, transcendent experience that I cannot even begin to articulate.”

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Book:Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven
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“Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing. I suppose some will wish to debate whether it is important to keep these primitive arts alive. I shall not debate it. Either you know it in your bones, or you are very, very old.”

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Book:A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
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“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.”

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Author:Anatole France
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“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. Mary”

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Book:She: A Celebration of Greatness in Every Woman
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“I made these Sierra trips, carrying only a sackful of bread with a little tea and sugar, and was thus independent and free.”

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Book:JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays
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“Someone once told me a story about long term relationships. To think of them as a continent to explore. I could spend a lifetime backpacking through Africa, and I would still never know all there is to know about that continent. To stay the course, to stay intentional, to stay curious and connected - that's the heart of it. But it's so easy to lose track of the trail, to get tired, to want to give up, or to want a new adventure. It can be so easy to lose sight of the goodness and mystery within the person sitting right in front of you.”

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Author:Joy Williams
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“The success that comes from my books is not something I feel very comfortable with. Past a certain point you have to accept the idea that the success is a lot to do with the timing and luck and that divorces you from it massively. There are aspects of it that I haven't got used to at all. But I've enjoyed some parts of it massively. It relates to the same reason I did a lot of backpacking — partly for the experience — it's something to tell my grandkids. It's a weird chain of events to have in your life.”

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Author:Alex Garland
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“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.”

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Book:Jawaharlal Nehru's speeches
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“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”

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Author:Aldous Huxley
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“Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.”

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Book:Complete Essays: 1920-1925
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“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.”

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Book:On the Road
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“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.”

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Author:Rudyard Kipling
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“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.”

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Author:James A. Michener
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“What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.”

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Author:William Least Heat-Moon
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“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”

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Book:STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California
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“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”

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Book:Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953
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“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”

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Author:Anais Nin
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“If you come to a fork in the road, take it.”

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Author:Yogi Berra
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“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”

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Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America
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“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”

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Author:Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.”

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Book:The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road
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“Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.”

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Book:One Writer's Beginnings
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“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”

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Book:The Importance of Being Earnest
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“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.”

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Book:With Love and Irony
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“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”

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Author:Cesare Pavese
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