"My motivation to keep hiking was rooted in……" — Jennifer Pharr Davis

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• If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping… — Bill Bryson
• We can and should have an abundance of trails for walking, cycling, and horseback riding, in and close to our… — Lyndon B. Johnson
• Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week.… — Bill Bryson
• This is a unique aquarium in that a large portion of its collection features freshwater species, and it specializes in… — John Grant
• I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian… — Carlisle Floyd
• Clean energy is hippy power. But its also cowboy power, it's rancher power, it's Appalachian power. — Van Jones
• While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was… — Charles Frazier
• We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of… — Katherine Dunham
• I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very… — Renee Fleming
• Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle. — Robert Morgan
• the fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows… — Jim Goad
• Born Virginia Marshall but nicknamed Gig, my mother was a home economics teacher who had come all the way across… — Lee Smith

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