Quotes About Outdoors

We don't really believe in mowing the lawn; we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors.

I got into an argument with my girlfriend inside a tent. A tent is not a good place for an argument. I tried to walk out on her and had to slam the flap.

The more you connect with nature, the more creative you will become.

We get wet from the rain and sweat from the sun.

Leaves of three, leave them be!

Bueno… Pues, a lo mejor, si hace buen día, llevaré un pícnic y podemos comer en el parque. No hace falta ni que entremos al museo si no quieres.

It's raining, Annie.

He didn't try to explain ozone to her, or how raindrops hit rocks, releasing the fragrance of oils that plants had rubbed on them, or how spores in the ground give up their own earthy scent in the rain. He just took her out and let her sniff and sniff until she admitted that, yes, it smelled good outside after a thunderstorm.

I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.

...I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house. So I have spent almost all the daylight hours in the open air.

I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house." [ Notebook , Oct. 10, 1842]

That's not hunting," I wrote, "that's just shooting.

I like long walks, especialy when they are taken by people who annoy me.

Let me speak as a physician, Lady Blue: the primary cause of your melancholy is that for too long you have lacked contact with the earth, with water, with green and growing plants. You are not the kind of person who can live apart from these things. Like a wild bird in a cage, you will lose the will to live. You have to get outside.

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

That way they don't have to risk going outside where things are so dangerous and crazy. It's bad enough that some people—my father for one—have to go out to work at least once a week. None of us goes out to school any more. Adults get nervous about kids going outside.

She had such a deep tan that she looked as if she'd just been removed from the barbecue.

Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.

Sometimes I'm afraid the main reason I spend half of my life outdoors is simply because there aren't any mirrors.

I have spent most of my life outside, but for the last three years, I have been walking five miles a day, minimum, wherever I am, urban or rural, and can attest to the magnitude of the natural beauty that is left. Beauty worth seeing, worth singing, worth saving, whatever that word can mean now. There is beauty in a desert, even one that is expanding. There is beauty in the ocean, even one that is on the rise.

Tell me again why you have barbecues in the middle of winter, bro?" Nate looked at him like he was an idiot. "We like steak.

You didn't tell me the men here were all so … hot." Lexi shrugged. "It's Colorado.

Do you want some of this cheese, or shall we just go walking?

What did parents in the seventies do when kids were bored in the back? Nothing! They let them suck in gas fumes. Torture their siblings. And since it wasn't actually used for wearing, play with the seatbelt. If at any point you complained about being bored at home, you were really asking for it. "Go outside," your parents would roar, or worse, "Clean your room.