outdoor activities quotes

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one’s own town.

I’m a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They’re great for you limber-wise, they’re great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.

I like playing basketball and going to the gym. I don’t box, but I’ll ride my bike and go jogging or running in the park. Sometimes my lady and I go hiking.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.

If I went out to play basketball with other kids, when I came home I’d shower and go right back to the computer again. If there was a birthday party or a family activity, I would take my laptop and spend the whole day there.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

I jog up to the Hollywood sign every weekend. It’s fun and what a view!

I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day’s schedule and be ready for any off-road detour.

Gardening is not a rational act.

I always wanted to do what my brothers were doing. I always wanted to play the games they played and play rough and wear pants and go outside.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

I love to be alone, and I did as a child as well, especially if I was outside.

There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.

I’ve often said there’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

From the boys‘ point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.

One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.

What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

When you’re climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.