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• Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

  Walt Whitman

  Nature, Sleep, Air

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

  Douglas Adams

  Puff, Hitchhiking, Logic

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Life, Stay Strong

  "The Wright Style". Book by Carla Lind, p. 3, 1992.

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• Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow pizza.

  Douglas Adams

  Lying, Yellow, Hitchhiking

  "Fictional character: The Book". "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/ Episode #1.2", www.imdb.com. 1981.

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• Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.

  John Muir

  Yellowstone, Hiking, Mountain

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more”, p.451, e-artnow

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• Of all the paths you take in life,
  make sure a few of them are dirt.

  John Muir

  Nature, Hiking, Dirt

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• Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Ambition, Climbing, Practice

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• And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.

  Douglas Adams

  Girl, Nice, Men

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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• It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.

  Dave Barry

  Travel, Rain, Opportunity

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.158, Ballantine Books

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• Take only memories, leave only footprints.

  Chief Seattle

  Inspirational, Travel, Memories

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  I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Adventure, Dead Poets Society

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

  Douglas Adams

  Atheist, Faith Religion, Atheism

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

  Douglas Adams

  Inspirational, Happiness, Money

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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• This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.

  Douglas Adams

  You Make Me Happy, People, Unhappy

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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• Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

  Douglas Adams

  Distance, Lying, Science

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.

  Douglas Adams

  Alcohol, Brain, Gold

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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• The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the word "Infinite". Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, "wow, that's big", time. Infinity is just so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here.

  Douglas Adams

  Trying, Facts, Infinity

  Douglas Adams (2008). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.142, Del Rey

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• Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented briefly with the notion of going sideways, as a sort of existential protest, demanded participation in the decision-making process and finally took to squatting in basements sulking. An impoverished hitch-hiker visiting any planets in the Sirius star system these days can pick up easy money working as a counsellor for neurotic elevators.

  Douglas Adams

  Stars, Decision, Frustrated

  "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe". Book by Douglas Adams, Chapter 6, 1980.

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• A significant fraction of thru-hikers reach Katahdin, then turn around and start back to Georgia. They just can't stop walking, which kind of makes you wonder.

  Bill Bryson

  Georgia, Kind, Wonder

  Bill Bryson (2010). “A Walk In The Woods: The World's Funniest Travel Writer Takes a Hike”, p.145, Random House

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• The Hitch Hiker's Guide has not been an opera. It has however been a tapestry, if you count a woven bath towel as a tapestry.

  Douglas Adams

  Woven, Opera, Towels

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• I picked up a hitch hiker. You've got to when you hit them.

  Emo Philips

  "Fringe names best and worst festival jokes" by Christian Tobin, www.digitalspy.com. August 23, 2010.

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• Always avoid picking up hitch-hikers who are wearing a mask.

  Jack Adams

  Wearing A Mask, Mask

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• Ban walking sticks in wilderness. Hikers that use walking sticks are more likely to chase animals.

  Dave Barry

  God, Animal, Walking Sticks

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• For every hiker, climber or canoeist who gets into trouble, there are thousands more who don't. Peter Bronski's compelling account of misadventures in the Adirondacks is a necessary corrective for those who go into the mountains unwary of the dangers.

  Jim Wickwire

  Mountain, Trouble, Danger

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