Quotes About Outdoors

My health is important to me. I run with my dog, twice or three times a week.

I cycle, I take an hour's strenuous walk in the evening, I play tennis twice a week with a trainer, and I sail. I used to ride horses professionally - I'd ride seven or eight horses a day, so I had to be fit for that.

I've done about every kind of fishing you can imagine, but I've never noodled. And the reason I've never noodled is because I don't want to get bit by a water moccasin. I'm just too afraid of snakes.

Young people don't want to sit at home and watch television; they'd sooner be out doing their own thing.

When I write my book I'm going to tell people that if they happen to forget their wide-mouth jar, they should pee far enough away from their position so it doesn't ruin their hiding spot.

We spend many of our afternoons out under the peach tree, sitting on a blanket

I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my birthday, but I think I'll probably be given jewelry instead.

Tomorrow's a hunting day," I say. "I won't be much of a help with that," Peeta says. "I've never hunted before." "I'll kill and you cook," I say. "And you can always gather." "I wish there was some sort of bread bush out there," says Peeta.

A leather bag filled with food and a flask of hot tea.

swing my legs off the bed and slide into my hunting boots. Supple leather that has molded to my feet. I pull on trousers, a shirt, tuck my long dark braid up into a cap, and

hunt nearby. The tree

Every redneck's dream is to write a song and have it go on a fishing show.

To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.

My mom, dad and me were a compact group. They instilled in me a love for the outdoors. On school breaks, we'd go fishing for a week in the wilds of Alaska or Canada. The land was always in their souls.

I learned very quickly there's not a lot to do in South Florida when you can't golf or fish.

When I'm in South Africa, I make it a point to take my dogs out to the beach.

Camp Southern Ground is a lot more than a camp. It's more of a campus.

I grew up with a cabin so we'd always go out and hunt and fish and all that good stuff. All of the cliche Southern things one would imagine.

I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.

I grew up in the countryside riding horses, and I also ride every holiday in Spain, which is where I was born. It's a big part of my life.

I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house. So I have spent almost all the daylight hours in open air.

a heavy croker sack hanging pendant from a chestnut limb.

Down in the park with a friend called Five.

You don't need missionaries in Colorado; you got Colorado.