outdoors quotes

While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.

If I see a mountain, I just pick up and hike it.

True Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals, and therefore they understand them and are more in sympathy with them.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

I was definitely very much a country boy.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.

The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization, cement pavements, office buildings, radios have overwhelmed us, the need for regeneration has increased, and the impulses are even stronger.

I’m not someone who sits at home and doesn’t like to go out, doesn’t like to watch movies. I like to live my life.

Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don’t know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.

I’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.