Quotes About Outdoors

We would go to the football pitch near my estate and play until it was dark.

I love having the mountains nearby so I can get on the motorbike or bike and get off to go for a walk.

We've been some cool places fishing. My parents and my family all went up to Alaska. We fished for king salmon, and that was really neat.

I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.

Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.

We came from a neighborhood that was kind of older, so we didn't have that many kids that would go out and play. We moved into a neighborhood that has, like, 50 kids in it. There are 12 houses where we kind of all share a big backyard, and we're all circled in there. If one kid goes out there, they all go out and play.

In our neighborhood we used to hold major football sessions that went on until it got dark, with everyone playing against each other.

I'm the only girl on The Food Network who grills - I have two bestselling grilling books. I try to really focus on what men and women can do outside together out on the grill. I think it's really fun to have men and women out there together, having fun, working and enjoying themselves.

I like being outside and seeing a lot of new things.

The most restorative activity is to get out in nature where the air quality is a little nicer.

I was born in Owerri and grew up in the east of Nigeria, in Imo state. You could say I was a 'street boy': we grew up on the street, played on the street, did everything out on the street. It was a difficult life altogether, but that's how we grew up.

I shoot the same rifle I've shot since I killed my first deer with it when I was nine.

head back into the house. They were in their sixties, the kind of people who rushed outside to scold a kid who happened to walk across their grass to retrieve a Frisbee or baseball. And even though they were Jewish, they decorated their house with Christmas lights in addition to the menorah they

wakeboarding or skiing is a lot easier. Just get in the boat, lower the lift, and go. You can

We're sitting in my back garden on a hot summer night, eating barbecued chicken and listening to Todd Rundgren, when a friend suddenly explodes into a rant about pop music.

When they left behind all houses and the stink of too many people and stopped for an especially lavish breakfast cooked by the side of a noisy stream, each agreed that a city was not the finest place to breathe God's air and enjoy the sun's warmth.

In the outside world, he told me, there was no real silence. Not the fake silence you get when you plug your ears so you hear nothing but your heart, but real out-of-doors silence.

the sound of it nearly lost to the zipper-unzipping buzz of the cicadas.

IF GOD MEANT TEXANS TO SKI, HE'D HAVE MADE COWSHIT WHITE.

I am extremely happy walking on the downs...I like to have space to spread my mind out in.

She stood by the fireplace talking, in that beautiful voice which made everything she said sound like a caress, to Papa, who had begun to be attracted rather against his will (he never got over lending her one of his books and finding it soaked on the terrace), when suddenly she said, 'What a shame to sit indoors!' and they all went out on to the terrace and walked up and down.

A steel-blue plume from one of them fell among the heather. She loved wild birds' feathers. She had used to collect them as a boy. She picked it up and stuck it in her hat.

Two things alone remained to him in which he now put any trust: dogs and nature.

picnic, lightning)