Outdoors Quotes
I want my grandkids to grow up in the great outdoors. The last thing I want is for them to grow up to be nerds.
Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?
In New York City, a lot of people think "the great outdoors" is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.
so wondrous wild, the whole might seemthe scenery of a fairy dream
I was drinking in the surroundings: air so crisp you could snap it with your fingers and greens in every lush shade imaginable offset by autumnal flashes of red and yellow.
He stood there a moment, listened to the creek, and let the mountain air blow against his face. Even with all this heartache, it was beautiful here.
Whenever the sun is shining, I feel obligated to play outside!
As the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes of night.
Outside, the dogs whine over the wind. They sense the wolves - they sense the wild. It calls to them, like it calls to me, and I wonder sometimes if we are the only ones who hear it.
Rarely will I write indoors, even if it means getting wet during rain, or my hands numb in winter.
Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, they cure a thousand.
My tent doesn’t look like much but, as an estate agent might say, “It is air-conditioned and has exceptional location.
When I asked Father Tom where we find God in this present darkness, he said that God is in creation, and to get outdoors as much as you can.
Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.
Walking with my doggy is so much fun! And she makes me laugh, she makes me run. Licking she likes to make some good new friends, Kindly enough with cyclists who spin with no end.
You lift your head, you’re on your way, but really just to be walking, to be out of doors. That’s it, that’s all, and you’re there. Outdoors is our element: the exact sensation of living there.
And as we know from the pilgrimage diaries of Swami Ramdas, it is when we renounce everything that everything is given to us, in abundance. Everything: meaning the intensity of presence itself.
The outside is the only place we can truly be inside the world.
Smart people that like good health spend several hours outdoors daily in the shade of trees.
I never knew I liked to be outside so much. I never knew I liked lochs and views and that, but I could seriously handle living in a cottage by the side of somewhere like this."The Panopticon
You need to be outdoors. Away from here. You need a holiday.
No, " said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it.
I’m likely to stay here, pen in hand, until dusk comes and my writing melts into the twilight.
...there are no new themes for a writer, only new ways of setting down old themes, new eyes to wander among old rocks.
The word "landmark" is from the old English "landmearc", meaning 'an object in the landscape which, by its conspicuousness, serves as a guide in the direction of one's course.
Think while walking, walk while thinking, and let writing be but the light pause, as the body on a walk rests in contemplation of wide open spaces.
We both loved the birds and animals and plants. We both felt far happier out of doors. I felt a peace in nature that I could never find in the human world, as you know.
I am extremely happy walking on the downs...I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
Every step of the walk unburdens us of what we have just seen and thought while it simultaneously thrusts us into the previously unknown.
Should humans conquer the mountain or should they wish for the mountain to possess them?
The stars were better company anyway. They were very beautiful, and they almost never snored.
With…love of wind, there is no surer test of genuine Nature instinct that this. Any body can love sunshine.
Words tend to bounce off nature as they try to deliver nature's language into the hands of another language foreign to it.
...landscape is a work of the mind. Its scenery is built up as much from strata of memory as from layers of rock.
Fishing is much less about the fishing, and much more about the time alone with your kid, away from the hustle and bustle of the everyday.
I routinely use my blue sky "Device" and it works very well for me.