141 Quotes About Outdoors

Bring the outdoors indoors.

Fewer and fewer people are raised outside of cities as the decades progress. Nature is sometimes not available for generations of children. Sad state of affairs.

Keep not standing fix'd and rooted,Briskly venture, briskly roam;Head and hand, where'er thou foot it,And stout heart are still at home.In each land the sun does visitWe are gay, whate'er betide:To give room for wandering is itThat the world was made so wide.

To apprehend things—walking on a hill, seeing the light change, the mist, the dark, being aware, using the whole of one’s body to instruct the spirit—yes, that is a secret life one has and knows others have. But to be able to share it, in and through words—that is what frightens me ... It dissolves one’s being, I am no longer myself but a part of a life beyond myself when I read pages which are so much an expression of myself

By and large, our present problem is one of attitudes and implements. We are remodeling the Alhambra with a steam-shovel, and we are proud of our yardage. We shall hardly relinquish the shovel, which after all has many good points, but we are in need of gentler and more objective criteria for its successful use

The evolution of a land ethic is an intellectual as well as emotional process.

Listen to the trees to hear their stories.

Listen to the trees to learn their secrets.

One cannot know the rivers till one has seen them at their sources; but this journey to sources is not to be undertaken lightly. One walks among elementals, and elementals are not governable. There are awakened also in oneself by the contact elementals that are as unpredictable as wind or snow