Backpacking is the art of knowing what not to take.
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 to self-reliance, hardihood, woodcraft, or marksmanship, but too often functioning as substitutes for them. Gadgets fill the pockets, they dangle from neck and belt. The overflow fills the auto-trunk and also the trailer. Each item of outdoor equipment grows lighter and often better, but the aggregate poundage becomes tonnage.
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
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 A to point B. It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way.
It is one of the blessings of wilderness life that it shows us how few things we need in order to be perfectly happy.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
I see my path, but I don't know where it leads.
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.
I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.
Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.
The man who goes afoot, prepared to camp anywhere and in any weather, is the most independent fellow on earth.
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