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"Life takes on a neat simplicity, too. Time ceases to have any meaning. When it is dark, you go to bed, and when it is light again, you get up, and everything in between is just in between. It's quite wonderful, really."

This is what I like most about camping

Just some facts I highlighted:
" One-third of the landscape of the lower forty-eight states is covered in trees-728 million acres in all...Altogether, just 2% of the U.S. is classified as built up."

"In fact, mostly what the Forest Service does is build roads. There are 378,000 miles of roads in America's national forests...it is eight times the total mileage of America's interstate highway system."