Outdoors Without Quotes

#1. He could usually get outdoors without waking Momma or Ellie or Brenda or Joyce Ann.

Katherine Paterson

#2. Diana? Isn't she the goddess who hated men?'
He considered. 'I think of her as the goddess who tempted men by bathing outdoors, and turned them into animal life if they succumbed to the lure of bare flesh.

Eloisa James

#3. We had sex in every position i could imagine, and some i couldn't. we had sex in every room in my house, and we had sex outdoors. you told me it was the best you'd ever had.

Charlaine Harris

#4. We had a cistern for water. My grandmother churned butter and made lye soap. She and my mother did the washing in a wash kettle outdoors, using a fire to heat the water. That's the way they did the wash until the 1950s.

Bobbie Ann Mason

#5. One of the questions I get asked a lot is, 'What do you do to stay in shape?' My glib answer is, 'I play.' But I mean it. Sure, I go to the gym, but I don't spend my life there. Most of my activity is outdoors, whether it's basketball or mountain biking or rock climbing.

Jason Lewis

#6. Where lies your landmark, seamark, or soul's star?

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#7. This is the first place in the United States where I sang, and I like San Francisco better than any other city in the world. I love no city more than this one. Where else could I sing outdoors on Christmas Eve?

Luisa Tetrazzini

#8. When I was growing up, and other people I knew were getting into trouble, I was somewhere in a deer stand or going to bed early so I could be up before dawn to hunt turkeys. My love of the outdoors kept me solid.

Donald Trump Jr.

#9. Good health, peace of mind, being outdoors, camaraderie - those are all wonderful things that come to you when running. But for me, the real pull of running - the proverbial icing on the cake - has always been racing.

Bill Rodgers

#10. Though her grasp of English was modest and his Italian non-existent, their rapport was at once intuitive and intimate, founded more on physical attraction and a shared love of the outdoors than meaningful conversation.

Robert Radcliffe

#11. I grew up in a wood cabin on Puget Sound in Manchester, Wash. My family taught me to appreciate the arts and the outdoors, and I still yearn for the absolute silence I experienced there when I was young.

Steven Holl

#12. I love Salt Lake City. well. It's beautiful with all the great outdoors around you.

Peter Sagal

#13. Along with rock climbing, I hike and I like to go to the beach, anything outdoors and anything that takes me out of the everyday.

Christa B. Allen

#14. I'm happier and a better person when I work out, especially if I work out outdoors.

Amy Jo Martin

#15. It's the picnic principle. Things taste better outdoors. And if it's a forbidden thing, so much the better.

Franny Billingsley

#16. When you're riding a bike you're more connected to the outdoors and to other people than you are when you are stuck in your car.

Shakti Gawain

#17. Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that.

Elsie De Wolfe

#18. A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars.

Alan S. Kesselheim

#19. It's insane. I've had girls throwing themselves at me since the hype started. Now the film's out I can't walk down the street without being pounced on. All my life I've hated crowds. Now I only have to step outdoors and I'm at the centre of one. It's very cool but it's very uncomfortable too.

Robert Pattinson

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

Norman Cousins

#21. Every year, the bright Scandinavian summer nights fade without anyone's noticing. One evening in August you have an errand outdoors, and all of a sudden it's pitch-black. It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive.

Tove Jansson

#22. I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors. The thing is done without your knowing it.

Winslow Homer

#23. You can't make a movie about the artist without shooting outdoors.

Mike Leigh

#24. Look closely at the Japanese; they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows ...

Paul Gauguin

#25. I never camped as a kid, but I really got into camping and sleeping outdoors. I've also done some amazing river floats in New Mexico and Idaho. It's peaceful and awesome.

Conor Oberst

#26. Running outdoors is to be in a sort of magical kingdom under whose spell I feel happiest.

Robin Harvie

#27. It's strange to play outdoors, especially in the daytime. But we're figuring it out. The rules are different for festival shows - how you talk to the crowd, how you can try to get them involved. Things are just a little different, and I think we've learned to adapt our show.

Andrew Dost

#28. You need to be outdoors. Away from here. You need a holiday.

Fennel Hudson

#29. It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring.

Charles Kuralt

#30. Hiking is great because it's a lifelong sport and you're outdoors, active, so whether you call that a sport or a hobby or a recreation, I think the wording - it's a great way to get exercise, and it can be as challenging as you want to make it.

Jennifer Pharr Davis

#31. Seeped into his bones from decades of sitting outdoors in

Kamila Shamsie

#32. There's something about moonlight on the body and things happening sort of free and open. Outdoors is something I'm totally game and down for.

Cameron Diaz

#33. Up home we loved a good storm coming, we'd fly outdoors and run up and down to meet it," her mother used to say. "We children would run as fast as we could go along the top of that mountain when the wind was blowing, holding our arms right open. The wilder it blew the better we liked it.

Eudora Welty

#34. He knew for a fact that he was so hopelessly bad at seeing through camouflage that, if left alone in the forest, he might even attempt to make fire by rubbing two snakes together.

Sorin Suciu

#35. Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.

W.C. Fields

#36. Colleges produce more sports therapists than engineers. Perhaps because America is a sporty country: a lot of outdoors.

Azim Premji

#37. I went into geology because I like being outdoors, and because everybody in geology seemed, well, they all seemed like free spirits or renegades or something. You know, climbing mountains and hiking deserts and stuff.

Kathy B. Steele

#38. Maybe I had more wrinkles than I would if I hadn't spent so much of my life outdoors, but I didn't care. It was a privilege to grow old, and not everyone got to enjoy it. I was grateful for every minute I was given.

Diane Chamberlain

#39. As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors.

Sharon Creech

#40. We made love outdoors
Without a roof, I like most,
Without stove, to make love, assuming the weather be fair and balmy, and the earth beneath be clean. Our souls intertwined and gushing of dew.

Roman Payne

#41. 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

#42. Country picnics always sound nicer than they are. I think we should just have the idea of them, and be pleased with it, and then not go. The only true pleasures are indoors, artificial, and untainted with healthiness.

Jude Morgan

#43. Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day.

Tom Hanks

#44. The snow was endless, a heavy blanket on the outdoors; it had a way about it. A beauty. But I knew that, like many things, beauty could be deceiving.

Cambria Hebert

#45. On my days off, I like to be outdoors - on my bike or walking the dog or swimming - so it's important anyone I date is also into fitness.

Mollie King

#46. When you don't go to the park or to the beach because you are ashamed of how you look, remember the girls and boys that live in war-torn countries that are not allowed the joys of outdoors fun.

Jamie Le Fay

#47. Sex outdoors is great. I'm not an exhibitionist, but I love the possibility that people might be able to see.

Ali Landry

#48. I grew up in Southern California so I was always at the beach and outdoors. I remember my dad laying around the pool baking; he was practically George Hamilton.

C. J. Wilson