Quotes About Outdoors

Walking is good for solving problems — it's like the feet are little psychiatrists.

Backpacking: An extended form of hiking in which people carry double the amount of gear they need for half the distance they planned to go in twice the time it should take.

Hiking is just walking where it's okay to pee.

Caulfield: In the past, here's how you'd forecast the weather: pick up your phone; call someone west of you; have them open a window. In the present, you open a window on your phone. Frazz: In the future, no one goes outdoors.

I really would like to stop working forever — never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I'm doing now — and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends... Just a literary and quiet city-hermit existence.

Kids don't remember their best day of television.

Fresh air impoverishes the doctor.

To smell a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body...

God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done.

When overwhelmed and stressed and unable to think, I go out and garden, it's cheaper than a shrink.

Spring is here! I'm so excited I wet my plants.

Discover wildlife: Be a teacher!

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

Golf has too much walking to be a good game, and just enough game to spoil a good walk.

because the deeper you get into golf, the more you learn to value the freedom, the companionship, the joy of being outdoors in beautiful surroundings, and the profound mysteries of the game itself.

A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe." Tripping, Page 231,by

Under a shady tree can you feel the soft cool grass? can you feel it with your toes? we can sit here while it grows. Laurie Berkner

Grass stain?" "Annoying, probably permanent, essentially harmless. Kind of ugly.

I personally love to run outdoor fitness trails. I love the meditative value I get when out alone, challenging myself to run faster and higher.

Trust me, sunscreen is so, so, so important and so I always wear sunscreen, but I still get really tan.

A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something. Not that he is cruel. He wouldn't hurt a fly. It's not big enough.

I happen to love a good run almost as much as sex. Like sex, there are often times I don't think I'm interested until I'm into it. Unlike sex, I do have to get out of bed and into the elements. I hate leaving bed.

A wild animal, when cornered, may suddenly and desperately defend itself. This is why I try not to spend any more time outdoors than is absolutely necessary.

course, mountains serve as homes to mountain goats and mountain lions, who enjoy attacking helpless picnickers and eating sandwiches or children. So