Quotes About Nature

Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.

It's impossible to imagine what Australia would be like without surfing.

You know, if you need 100 rounds to kill a deer, maybe hunting isn't your sport.

We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.

The beauty of my sport is that you can do it from anywhere.

Is it [hunting] really a sport if you have all the equipment and your opponent doesn't know a game is going on?

I don't like the human race in general. We are the only species who hunt for sport, who kill due to emotional need.

Of all the various out-door recreations I have tried, when it comes to genuine, exciting sport, give me hunting with a camera.

I don't really go mountain biking per se, like a proper sport.

The sport [football] is simply more and more identified with violence, both in its inherent nature and in its savage personnel... [The National Football League] now needs a guardian, not a CEO.

Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.

Surfers are in tune with the weather because if there's a storm coming, there are waves coming. I love the rain.

I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.

Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.

I don't regard nature as a spectator sport.

True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.

The sun has been there for 500, 600 years.

It is fun to be outside; it's good to move your body and there is just a joy in sports and athletics.

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

I'm no good at cooking or music, but I've always known how to garden. Nobody ever taught me; I just absorbed it. Some families are churchgoers or sports fans. We gardened.

Surfing is real private. It's a solo, loner sport.

A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars.

If I replace the word God with the word nature, I am far more at ease with the whole religious enterprise.

More and more, paddling the Yellowstone feels like that bedside visit, like we are attending to a friend in dire straits, a friend whom we have seen in the full bloom of health, but with whom, now, there is little to say and only our companionship to offer.