Quotes About Outdoors

When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.

Canadian hikers would be too polite to end up as bodies. Thus the bodies must not belong to random hikers.

I'll get some more firewood," I said, turning away from the fire. "What we have won't last the night." "Best do that, I think," Kith said. "Wandel and I'll see about dinner." "I thought the woman should do the cooking," said Wandel, teasing but still half-serious. He hadn't eaten what I could cook over an open fire. "We'll cook," replied Kith, who had.

There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.

There is no greater fan of fly fishing then the worm.

There is nothing better than to be headed into the mountains on a clean fresh day with the sun rising through the trees and good company and good talk and the sense of ease that comes from the knowledge that you are in somebody else's car and it is not your transmission that is going to get torn out on a big rock.

You know how to check fer thin ice, boy?" he would ask me. "Wall, what you do is stick one foot way out ahead of you and stomp the ice real hard and listen fer it to make a crackin' sound. Thar now, did you hear how the ice cracked whan Ah stomped it? Thet means it's too thin to hold a man's weight. Now pull me up out of hyar and we'll run back to shore and see if we kin built a fahr b'fore Ah freezes to death!

It'll make you look rugged,' Mel says. 'Because I woke up this morning,' I say, 'and the one thing I realized I lacked was ruggedness.

I want a campfire box.

For the kids at Chaff, the annual Career Day, held about two weeks before the summer break, was enough to make most of them at contemplate career suicide before they'd even taken an aptitude test or a written resume. Held outdoors on the schoolyard blacktop, the assemblage of coal miners, driving-range golf-ball retrievers, basket weavers, ditch diggers, book-binders, traumatized fire-fighters, and the world's last astronaut never does much to inspire.

De zee is blauw, het bos is groen

Wearing an off-white skier's jumpsuit, he had a bullhorn in one hand, a walkie-talkie clipped to his belt, a digital thermometer zippered on his sleeve, and a revolver holstered on his hip.

Golf is essentially an exercise in masochism conducted out-of-doors.

Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.

Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion.

At the first one we did it was pouring down all day, and it was lovely to see the big smiles on everyone's faces despite the weather. They really enjoyed it – particularly the kids.

He yanked up a couple of mushrooms. "Tania, can we eat these?" Taking them out of his hands and throwing them back on the ground, Tatiana said, "Yes. But we will only be able to eat them once.

When Emma sat down on a rock to take off her shoes and stockings, he said to her, "You've Yankee feet. Long and skinny." "And you've Irish feet," she said, right back at him. "Big and always in your mouth

Når verden går meg imot, og det unnlater den sjelden å gjøre når det gis noen leilighet til det, har jeg alltid funnet meg vel ved å ta en friluftsvandring som demper for min smule bekymring og uro. Hva som hadde vært i veien denne gangen, husker jeg nå ikke mer; men det som står klart for min erindring, er at jeg en sommerettermiddag for noen år siden vandret oppover engene på østsiden av Akerselva

There's one good thing about snow, it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor's. - Clyde Moore

If the word citronella makes you think of candles and torches, the people at the candle companies are doing their jobs right. But citronella isn't just for candles. You can wear it, too. Citronella is an essential oil derived from lemongrass, and it's one of the most beloved mosquito repelling substances around.

he didn't seem to mind being cold and wet or exhausted the way other people did. It wasn't fun, but then life wasn't meant to be that fun. That was the difference, Wynn thought. For Jack, stuff like cold and hunger didn't have a value, good or bad, they just were, and it was best if they didn't last that long; but if they did, as long as one survived them, no harm, no foul. It gave Jack a strength, a temper, that Wynn admired.