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Backpacking is the art of knowing what not to take. -- Sheridan Anderson
I'd really like to get on a Greyhound bus and go backpacking across America. -- David Morrissey
My meals were easily made, for they were all alike and simple, only a cupful of tea and bread. -- John Muir
Under most conditions, the best roof for your bedroom is the sky. This commonsense arrangement saves weight, time, energy, and money. -- Colin Fletcher
I made these Sierra trips, carrying only a sackful of bread with a little tea and sugar, and was thus independent and free.... -- John Muir
Although the vast majority of walkers never even think of using a walking staff, I unhesitatingly include it among the foundations of the house that travels on my back. -- Colin Fletcher
Think what a great world revolution will take place when ... [there are] millions of guys all over the world with rucksacks on their backs tramping around the back country.... -- Jack Kerouac
We do not go to the green woods and crystal waters to rough it, we go to smooth it. We get it rough enough at home, in towns and cities. -- George W. Sears
If you want to read anything nasty about me, just go to the backpacker websites. There's this kind of elitist branch where they really believe that I had no business going backpacking. -- Cheryl Strayed
I see myself being married to my girlfriend and backpacking all over the world. If I can go out and do a 15-mile hike and climb a 12,000-ft. peak, I'm good to go. -- Matt Long
In 1995, when I was backpacking through Europe solo, I would head to the train station, look up at the big board, and decide right there and then where I would go that day. -- Joseph Pisani
The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband's family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp. -- Sarah Wayne Callies
When I was 18 years old, in a more innocent time, my first backpacking trip through Europe, I sneaked into the Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum after nightfall and spent several hours in there avoiding the guards patrolling. -- Guy Gavriel Kay
Even in these mercifully emancipated decades, many people still seem quite seriously alarmed at the prospect of sleeping away from officially consecrated campsites, with no more equipment than they can carry on their backs. When pressed, they babble about snakes or bears or even, by God, bandits. But the real barrier, I'm sure, is the unknown. -- Colin Fletcher
I've been doing long-distance backpacking since 2002 when I hiked the Appalachian Trail. You start to calm down and relax and get into the slower rhythm of nature. -- John Mackey

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