Outdoors Quotes

It can't be more than a quarter of a mile to the finish, but it seems to go on forever. Do I really have to do this? My legs are entirely dead. Would it really matter if I stopped here?But I know I'd regret it if I did, so I plod leadenly on, distracting myself...with the thought that, whatever troubles I may have been carrying around in my head before the race, I have now entirely forgotten what they were. This thought is rather refreshing. Whatever physical pains it has involved, this ordeal has utterly absorbed me, forcing my brain to focus on the kind of concerns for which it evolved - navigation, survival, balance, digging deep - rather than on the fretful urban anxieties to which it has become habituated. Reconnecting with your inner animal, I suppose you could call it; and it feels good. Especially when, blissfully, I catch sight of the finish.

~ Richard Askwith

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.

~ Wendy Delsol

For brick and mortar breed filth and crime,With a pulse of evil that throbs and beats;And men are whithered before their primeBy the curse paved in with the lanes and streets.And lungs are poisoned and shoulders bowed, In the smothering reek of mill and mine;And death stalks in on the struggling crowd—But he shuns the shadow of the oak and pine

~ George Washington Sears

I love to be outdoors, so I like to hike, bike and go to the beach.

~ Jillian Rose Reed

I was focused on athletics, outdoors, sports.

~ Joe Namath

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

~ Norman Cousins

All those hours exploring the great outdoors made me more resilient and confident.

~ David Suzuki

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

~ Mackenzie Crook