Backpacking Quotes
The best sayings about Backpacking that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
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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 travels on my back.
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The man who goes afoot, prepared to camp anywhere and in any weather, is the most independent fellow on earth.
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When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
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If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
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Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
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What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
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The man with the knapsack is never lost. No matter whither he may stray, his food and shelter are right with him, and home is wherever he may choose to stop.
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Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends
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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
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I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. Mary
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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 climb a 12,000-ft. peak, I'm good to go.
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Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.
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There is an intense but simple thrill in setting off in the morning on a mountain trail, knowing that everything you need is on your back. It is a confidence in having left the inessentials behind and of entering a world of natural beauty that has not been violated, where money has no value, and possessions are a dead weight. The person with the fewest possessions is the freest. Thoreau was right.
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If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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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 husband’s family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp.
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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 it is real. I feel ludicrously lucky to have been chosen to play such a compassionate, complex character for my first film, and I am so grateful to all the beautiful people who made it possible for me. It was a dream come true. I felt like Cinderella every day, going to work with this amazing team on this dream script. If Cinderella were a vampire.
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All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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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.
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A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
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The success that comes from my books is not something I feel very comfortable with. Past a certain point you have to accept the idea that the success is a lot to do with the timing and luck and that divorces you from it massively. There are aspects of it that I haven't got used to at all. But I've enjoyed some parts of it massively. It relates to the same reason I did a lot of backpacking partly for the experience it's something to tell my grandkids. It's a weird chain of events to have in your life.
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Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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To equip a pedestrian with shelter, bedding, utensils, food, and other necessities, in a pack so light and small that he can carry it without overstrain, is really a fine art.
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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 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.
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Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.
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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
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