Quotes About Outdoors

The stream at the end of your street can be a place where you make contact with this whole other amazing world hidden right there beneath the surface. Fishing can be the passport to that world.

I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more.

I just love to be out on the lake, wakeboard, surfing, just playing, man.

Fresh snow is amazing. The board is real different... it floats on the powder and goes really fast. If you're riding a long board, it's more like surfing than skiing.

I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.

I grew up in Imperial Beach, surfing and going to the beach - my son plays baseball at the park.

I'll be honest - my buddies are always going round saying, 'Put a shirt on. Jeez,' but I grew up on the beach. I grew up surfing. I grew up outdoors. I've sort of always liked being shirtless.

It was a nice walk, if you like grunting.

It was a nice walk, if you liked grunting.

What Sidda did not know was how much more singing there was when Vivi was growing up. That's the kind of thing the history books don't tell you. How people sang outdoors all the time.

Rain before sunset and we'll be in shelter.

Why, all of you," answered the other, surprised. "You don't want to stay out in the rain, do you?

USED TROUT STREAM FOR SALE. MUST BE SEEN TO BE APPRECIATED.

You had to be a plumber to fish that creek.

Or you might set the morning star for it burns and burns and glitters in the winter dawn, and throws forth beam like those of metal consumed by oxygen. (Out of Doors in February)

One of the questions that I am almost in aria of asked about backpacking is, Aren't you afraid? Generally, people have something specific in mind when they ask the question, and generally, it's something on the order of snakes, bears, or criminals. I'm not particularly afraid of snakes; in most parts of the United States, bears are more of a nuisance than a threat; and I've never met a criminal in the woods.

of a copperhead. When he

I'm sort of an old man, always tinkering in the backyard. Since I grew up playing outdoors, I still like to plant things, sit out on the deck, or go hiking.

A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.

I used to love going fishing. I think it was really about the clothes. Nothing says real man like a vest with 38 pockets and a mesh hat with hooks in it.

Running should be free, man.

I think people love nature after they experience it. I know I experienced it as a young man - I took a lot of hikes, I was involved in scouting.

It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.

Cooking meat over a fire is one of the most stirring of those ritual acts, usually performed outdoors, on special occasions, in public, and by men.