Quotes About Outdoors

A dog is one of the few remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.

Well, don't fart or you'll scare the deer," he continued seriously. "They have very sensitive noses and ears.

let your kids experience as much microbial diversity as you can find. Get them outside, let them interact with animals, allow them to play in the dirt, rivers, streams, ocean. Don't sterilize everything they are going to touch or put into their mouth. A great example of this is the pacifier that falls on the ground. Parents who sterilize the binky run the risk of increasing the likelihood that their child will develop food sensitivities later in life.

Aunt Isabelle fractured her ankle once while gardening

I am big into water sports and just being out on the water. That is second nature to me, being from Florida.

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.

Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.

Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature.

We made our own fish-lines, twisting and double-twisting and triple-twisting the silk, ganged on the hooks, bought the long bamboo poles and cut them up, and out of them made our own jointed fishing-rods. We always cleaned our fish ourselves. It was the law of the sport that our fun should not make work for others which we ourselves could do.

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.

Touch nature. I'm serious—every day, your soul needs to engage creation.

Encounter weather whenever you can. Don't hide from it; experience it.

He didn't make Adam from polyester, but from the dust of the earth, and he didn't set him down at the mall, but in the outdoors, in nature. The created world, with all its beauty and diversity and wildness, this is the world God intended for us to live in relationship to.

Really, the only thing a psychiatrist can do that a good (fishing) guide can't is write prescriptions.

There are people in my life who sometimes worry about me when I go off into the fields and streams, not realizing that the country is a calm, gracious, forgiving place and that the real dangers are found in the civilization you have to pass through to get there. When

Rene Harrop's Green Drake Biot Emerger, a

Dave Hughes, in his fine book An Angler's Astoria, has

but the rule here, as it is in Montana, is that you can fish through any private property as long as you stay in the streambed.

While you're at it, get that straight in your own head, too. You want peace, quiet, wildlife, scenery, wild trout, and you don't expect miracles

Charles Waterman, Gerald Almy

a garden some forty feet away, on the other side of the town wall

Bromley Mountain. It was close to

Running has made being depressed impossible. If I'm going through something emotional and just go outside for a run, you can rest assured I'll come back with clarity.