141 Quotes About Outdoors

Like roundness, or silence, their quality is natural, but it is found so seldom in its absolute state that when we do so find it we are astonished.

Humanity is united in its essential nature and is divided only in those things that are of secondary importance.

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

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

My breath catches in my lungs as exhilaration takes over my energized limbs. I no longer feel the stones underfoot. All I know is the air whooshing past my ears and the thud of my wild heart. I am light as air.

…if catching fish is your only objective, you are either new to the game or too narrowly focused on measurable results.

The only true development in American recreational resources is the development of the perceptive faculty in Americans. All of the other acts we grace by that name are, at best, attempts to retard or mask the process of dilution.

I said a picnic,' said Quin sternly. 'In Britain a picnic means sitting on the ground and being uncomfortable, preferably in the rain.

I’m likely to stay here, pen in hand, until dusk comes and my writing melts into the twilight.