Quotes About Outdoors

As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors.

I can't swim and I'm terrified of drowning, but I still love being by water - just not in it.

I love living in California and being able to go to the beach or go to the woods.

I love being outdoors, playing beach tennis, going for runs in the sand, or doing a three-hour hike with my best girlfriend, Mieko.

I love getting paid to ride a horse.

I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.

I'm just a glutton for spas and messages. And I love to surf and hike.

Believe it or not, but I was a camp councilor for three years. I love kids.

... I love walking my feet off. Gimme a map and a box of Band-Aids and I'm all set!

The absence of suffocating humidity and carnivorous plants was appreciated.

Water'n'breads, pickernick on wall.

The sitting President of the United States was a soulless imbecile who hated the outdoors, but in Angie's view, at this point Teddy Roosevelt himself couldn't turn the tide if he came back from the dead. All the treasured wilderness that had been sacrificed at the altar of growth was gone for all time. More disappeared every day; nothing ever changed except the speed of destruction, and only because there were fewer pristine pieces to sell off, carve up and pave.

It was the third dead body he'd found while fishing, but such was the reality of a childhood spent outdoors in Florida. It was a testament to the teen's passion for angling that he'd never considered

Mostly, kids were expected to entertain themselves and stay out of their parents' hair. To that end, you were sent outside to play at the drop of a hat. It wasn't an option; it was a standing mandate. If there wasn't a winter blizzard or a spring rainstorm or a summer heat wave, you went outside and stayed outside until the next mealtime came around.

Someone got killed up here.... It was outside. A tall man. He had one leg longer'n the other. And a beard. He was probably a hunter. How'd you know all that? I just trod on 'im.

He had the kind of real deep tan that rich people spent ages trying to achieve with expensive holidays and bits of tinfoil, when really all you need to do to obtain one is work your arse off in the open air everyday.

It was a nice day.

It's yet another thing that irritates me this morning, on top of the fact that I'm hungry. I didn't sleep well, and now the mosquitos have found me. Mosquitos always find me. Whenever I step outside , it's as if they can hear their dinner bell ring, and already I am slapping at my neck and face.

Only animals should have to pee in the woods.

He picked up three long fresh stalks of timothy and braided them together. He upended the scythe and thrust the handle deep enough into the soft earth so it would stand upright. He tied the braided grass to one of the grips and slipped the whetstone into the loops so it would stay. Then he walked off into the woods.

I know the freedom that cycling gives you in terms of being able to just jump on and go.

When I'm not working, as a family we are obsessed with jumping off rocks into the sea and doing dangerous things.

Playing into June is the best thing.

I'd like to live on horseback and just be a cowboy.