Outdoors Quotes

...there are no new themes for a writer, only new ways of setting down old themes, new eyes to wander among old rocks.

~ Jim Crumley

Scholars, I plead with you, Where are your dictionaries of the wind, the grasses?

~ Norman Maccaig

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.

~ Tracy Rees

Although the deepest of snow in living memory lay upon the ground, the sun was shining and Aurelia breathed easiest out of doors. The four walls of any given room could not give her the horizons she longed for - horizons she could measure with her eyes and strive to conquer with her own two legs. She was like a wild animal, Cook always said.

~ Tracy Rees

I am extremely happy walking on the downs...I like to have space to spread my mind out in.

~ Virginia Woolf

The place has entered me...it has coloured my life like a stain.

~ Adam Nicolson

Every step of the walk unburdens us of what we have just seen and thought while it simultaneously thrusts us into the previously unknown.

~ Jeffrey Robinson

Should humans conquer the mountain or should they wish for the mountain to possess them?

~ Kiran Desai

The stars were better company anyway. They were very beautiful, and they almost never snored.

~ David Eddings

When I was a child in Scotland, I was fond of everything that was wild, and all my life I've been growing fonder and fonder of wild places and wild creatures. Fortunately, around my native town of Dunbar, by the stormy North Sea, there was no lack of wildness...

~ John Muir

It is not good for man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species. A world from which solitude is extirpated is a very poor ideal. Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character; and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thoughts and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without. Nor is there much satisfaction in contemplating the world with nothing left to the spontaneous activity of nature...scarcely a place left where a wild shrub or flower could grow without being eradicated as a weed in the same of improved agriculture. If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, for the mere support of a larger, but not a better or happier population, I sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will be content to be stationary...

~ John Stuart Mills

Words tend to bounce off nature as they try to deliver nature's language into the hands of another language foreign to it.

~ Theodor Adorno

It didn’t matter that she didn’t live here, that a relationship was out of the question. It was probably because a relationship wouldn’t happen that he could let himself get this close. He wrapped his arms tighter around her as though this were all that existed in the world. Just the two of them, the mountain, the clean winter air. The taste of her tongue on his lips.

~ Rebecca Brooks

...landscape is a work of the mind. Its scenery is built up as much from strata of memory as from layers of rock.

~ Simon Schma

On a winter’s day when a person’s spirits may be low and to behold thirty to one-hundred Evening Grosbeaks busily gorging themselves on bird seed and perched in a stand of pines with all of them creating a cacophony of sparrow like chirps, this is real therapy for me. It is an act of contagious optimism. It is at such times I realize that a bird can do more for me than a shrink.

~ Barry Babcock

No animal could change the character of the land as the presence of the wolf had that day.

~ Barry Babcock

SAUL: 'We made love outdoors, my favorite place to make love, assuming the weather be fair and balmy, and the earth beneath be clean. Our souls intertwined and dripping with sweat.

~ Roman Payne

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.

~ Dan Pearce

Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you’re no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn’t just a means to an end but a unique event in itself. This leaf has jagged edges. This rock looks loose. From this place the snow is less visible, even though closer. These are things you should notice anyway. To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here’s where things grow.But of course, without the top you can’t have any sides. It’s the top that defines the sides. So on we go—we have a long way—no hurry—just one step after the next—with a little Chautauqua for entertainment -- .Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it’s a shame more people don’t switch over to it. They probably think what they hear is unimportant but it never is.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

The human body when kept in an indoor environment of low lux light will not realize that it is daytime, as it cannot sense the increasing levels of daylight that the genetics are accustomed to. As such, by late morning your body may start sending a signal for you to sleep!

~ Steven Magee

I routinely use my blue sky Device and it works very well for me.

~ Steven Magee

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.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

so wondrous wild, the whole might seemthe scenery of a fairy dream

~ Walter Scott

When I returned to camp, they walked behind me on the trail, and we spoke not a word about getting skunked today, but rather talked about the days we returned with a stringer full of fish, and how we filleted them and the left the guts out for bears and eagles, and how those fish tasted fresh when we fried them over a fire.

~ Daniel J. Rice

Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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.

~ Anne Lamott

We are but faint-hearted crusaders...our expeditions are but tours...half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest walks, perchance, in the spirit of stirring adventure, never to return, --prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms...if you have paid your debts and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man, then you are ready for a walk.

~ Henry David Thoreau

My tent doesn’t look like much but, as an estate agent might say, “It is air-conditioned and has exceptional location.

~ Fennel Hudson

Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, they cure a thousand.

~ John Muir

Soon they were all sitting on the rocky ledge, which was still warm, watching the sun go down into the lake. It was the most beautiful evening, with the lake as blue as a cornflower and the sky flecked with rosy clouds. They held their hard-boiled eggs in one hand and a piece of bread and butter in the other, munching happily. There was a dish of salt for everyone to dip their eggs into.‘I don’t know why, but the meals we have on picnics always taste so much nicer than the ones we have indoors,’ said George.

~ Enid Blyton

Having a pleasant time can extend a long period of time to have a fun time.

~ Travis Polso

Rarely will I write indoors, even if it means getting wet during rain, or my hands numb in winter.

~ Fennel Hudson

Though American scenery is destitute of many of those circumstances that give value to the European, still it has features, and glorious ones, unknown to Europe...the most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wildness

~ Thomas Cole

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.

~ Summer Lane

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.

~ Daniel J. Rice

Most people spend less time outside than prisoners.

~ J.r. Rim

Be healthy by being outdoors in the natural daylight with nature!

~ Steven Magee

Whenever the sun is shining, I feel obligated to play outside!

~ Charles M. Schulz

Maybe freedom really is nothing left to lose. You had it once in childhood, when it was okay to climb a tree, to paint a crazy picture and wipe out on your bike, to get hurt. The spirit of risk gradually takes its leave. It follows the wild cries of joy and pain down the wind, through the hedgerow, growing ever fainter. What was that sound? A dog barking far off? That was our life calling to us, the one that was vigorous and undefended and curious.

~ Peter Heller

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.

~ Eowyn Ivey