Quotes About Outdoors

I'm a country boy at heart. I love it when you've got your boots on and you're standing in three inches of cow muck.

Standing around the grill is fine, but I like to have my friends come in and out of the house. Movement makes the party more exciting.

If God didn't want man to hunt, He wouldn't have given us plaid shirts.

The man of humanity delights in mountains

There comes a time in every man's life when he is either going to go fishing or do something worse.

Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason.

A word of advice. If, as a young man, student, you are tormented by a desire for women, it is best to get out into the fresh air as much as possible.

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.

Happy is the man who has acquired the love of walking for its own sake!

The swing on your porch is a better liver of life than the chair in front of your desk.

Let your working ideas go for a picnic - sometimes the fresh air and ant bites are just what they need. Many great ideas were bitten a little at the beginning.

The best times in my life were out in the bush with Steve.

We were both covered in little flecks of wood, leaves, and bark. Steve's hair was unkempt, a couple of his shirt buttons were missing, and his shorts were torn. I thought he was the best-looking man I had ever seen in my life.

He skied Mount Bachelor. I wasn't much of a skier, so I went off to track down wildlife while he had a great time on the slopes. Meeting him at the lodge afterward, I had to head off a leggy blonde who was intent on teaching Steve how to use an American pay phone. Not the kind of wildlife I was interested in him experiencing.

The King's private, and preferred, life was that of a country squire. In cultural or intellectual pursuits he had no interest whatsoever; he loathed travel. George V was never happier than when shooting at Balmoral or at Sandringham.

Theodore Roosevelt

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books

Again, it was proposed that we should go up the mountains and make our camps there.

You would be much amused with the animals round the ranch.

We rested a couple of hours at noon for lunch, and the afternoon's sport was simply a repetition of the morning's, except that we had but one dog to work with; for shortly after mid-day the stub-tail pointer, for his sins, encountered a skunk, with which he waged prompt and valiant battle—thereby rendering himself, for the balance of the time, wholly useless as a servant and highly offensive as a companion.

For a cat, he had very few aspirations. He didn't like the outdoors. Didn't like the way the grass felt on the pads of his feet. He was scared to death of birds. A severe case of over-domestication. Give

Outdoors next day, I was dizzy from a sense Of being ejected with some violence From vigil in a white and distant spot Where I was numb, into this garden plot Too warm, too close, and not enough like pain.

I feel best in nature or near nature.

Virgil Flowers fishes in the St. Croix where I fish for muskies near my house.