Quotes About Outdoors

Of all exercises, walking is the best.

...a rainy day ceases to have meaning for a person who has lived in the open under a monsoon cloud most of his life.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

I walk through the black Indiana night, under a ceiling of stars

Nina had been told regularly since she was a child that she needed more fresh air, at which she would take her book and clamber up the apple tree at the bottom of their tatty garden, away from the car her father was always tinkering with but had never driven in all the years of her childhood—she wondered what had happened to it—and hide there, braced against the trunk, her feet swinging, burying herself in Enid Blyton or Roald Dahl until she was allowed back inside again.

For most of her life, the outdoors had simply been something to shelter from whilst she got on with her reading.

Somewhere outside, a goldfinch was singing. Or maybe it was a song sparrow. My dad tried to teach me different kinds of bird songs, but I couldn't quite remember.

As you grow up you spend less and less time outside. Nobody can say "Go play outside" to you anymore to you.

I always think I could like skiing and then I go on a ski trip and I remember, oh yeah, I hate it.

on iPhone) the battery is fine. It lasts for four days. Though this might have something to do with the fact that I'm a man, and therefore only think to use a phone when I'm on a cliff, clinging to a branch, in a howling gale. And only then as a last resort.

There's relief in not having to be outside. No gardening, no mowing the lawn, no tyranny of long daylight hours to fill with productive activity. We rip through summer, burning the hours and tearing up the land. Then snow comes like a bandage, and winter heals the wounds.

Skipping is nature's antidepressant.

One of them, FreeCampsites.net, logged idyllic places in nature where visitors could stay for free, from small city parks to sprawling national forests.

This afternoon my husband Eric set big drop cloths in the backyard as an activity for them. He's done this for years, laying out paints and brushes so they can have at it. He says it's like therapy. A way to get out all your emotions. I panicked the first time I saw them throwing paint.

Straw Hat Day," Saturday, May 1, when a man could at last break out his summer hats. Men followed this rule.

I stood with a hot dog in my hand, the sun blazing off my coppery-dyed hair, and I laughed nonchalantly, but it came out as a Phyllis Diller bray that abraded my own ears.

Remember to get the weather in your damn book--weather is very important.

She was crying. I comforted her and she stopped crying. But outside it kept on raining.

I pointed to the canvas where the rain was making the finest sound that we, who live much outside of houses, ever hear.

Black flies, no-see-ums, deer flies, gnats and mosquitoes were instituted by the devil to force people to live in cities where he could get at them better. If it weren't for them everybody would live in the bush and he would be out of work. It was a rather successful invention.

The odor of citronella is not offensive to people. It smells like gun oil. But the bugs do hate it.

A kidder gets to be an awful thing around a camp if his stuff goes sort of sour.

killer were right behind us. Now we were outside,

One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks.