Backpacking Quotes
24 quotes by 21 authors
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I was a little hippie on a world backpacking adventure, and suddenly I became a vampire princess. I still find it hard to believe that…
— Lucy Fry
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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…
— Colin Fletcher
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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…
— George W. Sears
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Then came the gadgeteer, otherwise known as the sporting-goods dealer. He has draped the American outdoorsman with an infinity of contraptions, all offered as aids…
— Aldo Leopold
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Backpacking is the art of knowing what not to take.
— Sheridan Anderson
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Think what a great world revolution will take place when ... [there are] millions of guys all over the world with rucksacks on their backs…
— Jack Kerouac
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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…
— Colin Fletcher
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Under most conditions, the best roof for your bedroom is the sky. This commonsense arrangement saves weight, time, energy, and money.
— Colin Fletcher
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The rule of thumb for the old backpacking was that the weight of your pack should equal the weight of yourself and the kitchen range…
— Patrick F. McManus
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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…
— Sarah Wayne Callies
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Most of my colleagues go on backpacking trips when they have to do some thinking. I go to a good hardware store and head for…
— Neal Stephenson
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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…
— Matt Long
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I'd really like to get on a Greyhound bus and go backpacking across America.
— David Morrissey
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My meals were easily made, for they were all alike and simple, only a cupful of tea and bread.
— John Muir
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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....
— John Muir
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It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point…
— Cheryl Strayed
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When I was 23, I went backpacking around Australia for three months. I saved up a few grand, quit my job and flew to Sydney,…
— Olly Murs
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When I left school, I went backpacking around the world for two years.
— Georgia Salpa
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I, made in England, felt excluded, miffed, resistant to the idea of even visiting India, a position of increasing absurdity as, one by one, backpacking…
— Glen Duncan
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I quit my job. I bought myself a real cheap, like, around-the-world flight ticket, and I went to 16 countries for six months just backpacking,…
— Malik Bendjelloul
Who Wrote These Backpacking Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 24 Backpacking Quotes as follows: