Quotes About Outdoors

I knew that you couldn't make a living simply writing about the outdoors, so I made an effort from the beginning of my freelance career to write about other subjects.

I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of barbecues, a garden, friends.

There's no game like golf: you go out with three friends, play eighteen holes, and return with three enemies

When you have children or grandchildren it seems kind of waste if they cannot play on the lawn because there is fertilizer all over it.-Author, ORGANIC LANDSCAPING TECHNIQUES BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOKS

Every day is a good day when you run.

The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and a cold drink in the other, tell somebody else where to dig.

The two best times to fish is when it's raining and when it ain't.

The best exercise for golfers is golfing.

Land really is the best art.

Hiking is the best workout!... You can hike for three hours and not even realize you're working out. And, hiking alone lets me have some time to myself.

I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.

I am sick of four walls and a ceiling I have need of the sky, I have business with the grass.

I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season.

Isn't horrible weather great? It means I don't have to wash my car!

When you're riding a bike you're more connected to the outdoors and to other people than you are when you are stuck in your car.

I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

The urge to garden transcends social circumstance, which accounts for the allotment movement, of which more later, and the floral energy of small front gardens up and down the land.

the water. The rafts also afforded them

There is no activity so conducive to the health and happiness of a civilized man as angling with an artificial fly. As for the uncivilized, who would care to contemplate what writhing creatures their inchoate consciences allow them to skewer upon a hook?

The hiking boots the outdoor adventure magazine sent me to buy - large, ungainly potato like things that I have been trying to break in for the past four days - cut into my feet and draw blood as if the were lined with cheese graters. I have come to hate these Timberlands with a fervor I usually reserve for people. Just think, the shoes I wouldn't be caught dead in might actually turn out to be the shoes I am caught dead in.

What brought us together was a love of nature, or, more specifically, of catching things and unintentionally killing them.

Then they had gone outside, onto the steps, where a breeze lifted secondhand confetti

About noon the following day, the horses

I wish we could get back to those days, just let kids go and play and enjoy themselves on the streets instead of at academies too young.