Quotes About Outdoors

Camp life is demanding, and even the simplest daily routine becomes a chore in a climate with 90 per cent humidity, not to mention the bugs.

There is a delight in the hardy life of the open.

Way of life in Australia focuses more on the outdoors.

The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.

My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.

Real life is happening outside and not in front of a computer.

Soccer moms are the enemy of natural history and the full development of a child.

Cricket to us was more than play, It was a worship in the summer sun.

How to pry the tourists out of their automobiles, out of their back-breaking upholstered mechanized wheelchairs and onto their feet, onto the strange warmth and solidity of Mother Earth again? This is the problem which the Park Service should confront directly, not evasively, and which it cannot resolve by simply submitting and conforming to the automobile habit.

Yes sir, yes madam, I entreat you, get out of those motorized wheelchairs, get off your foam rubber backsides, stand up straight like men! like women! like human beings! and walk-walk-WALK upon our sweet and blessed land!

Sign written on the inside of the outhouse door at the campground in Arches: "Attention: Watch out for rattlesnakes, coral snakes, whip snakes, vinegaroons, centipedes, millipedes, ticks, mites, black widows, cone-nosed kissing bugs, solpugids, tarantulas, horned toads, Gila monsters, red ants, fire ants, Jerusalem crickets, chinch bugs and Giant Hairy Desert Scorpions before being seated.

And most significant, these hordes of nonmotorized tourists, hungry for a taste of the difficult, the original, the real, do not consist solely of people young and athletic but also of old folks, fat folks, pale-faced office clerks who don't know a rucksack from a haversack, and even children. The one thing they all have in common is the refusal to live always like sardines in a can—they are determined to get outside of their motorcars for at least a few weeks each year.

I'll flip an extra shrimp on the barbie for you.

Camping: The art of getting closer to nature while getting farther away from the nearest cold beverage, hot shower and flush toilet.

Fishing is the sport of drowning worms.

Campers: Nature's way of feeding mosquitoes.

Traverse: One of two ways to stop while skiing. Tree: The other method.

Oh ladybug, I wish you joy As you complete your garden chores. I'd like to put aside my work And join you in the out-of-doors!

Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.

An angler is a man who spends rainy days sitting around on the muddy banks of rivers doing nothing because his wife won't let him do it at home.

It just wouldn't be a picnic without the ants.

Street hockey is great for kids. It's energetic, competitive, and skilful. And best of all it keeps them off the street.

Even if you've been fishing for three hours and haven't gotten anything except poison ivy and sunburn, you're still better off than the worm.

When overwhelmed and stressed and unable to think, I go out and garden, it's cheaper than a shrink.