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All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.…
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The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing…
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Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.
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There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.
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Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high…
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No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.
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Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to…
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Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
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For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet…
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The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the…
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Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded…
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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…
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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…
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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…
— Unknown Author
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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…
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Backpacking is the art of knowing what not to take.
— Unknown Author
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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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
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