Quotes About Outdoors

#1. 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

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

Fennel Hudson

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Kamila Shamsie

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

W.C. Fields

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

Azim Premji

#11. 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

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

Robin Harvie

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

Sharon Creech

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

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

David Eddings

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

Ali Landry

#23. 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

#24. 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

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

Amy Jo Martin

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

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

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#30. 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

#31. 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.

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

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

Peter Sagal

#36. 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

#37. 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

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

Franny Billingsley

#39. 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

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

Elsie De Wolfe

#41. I like being outdoors a lot, and I come from a small village that's fairly remote.

Jeremy Irvine

#42. I'm an introvert ... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

Audrey Hepburn

#43. I was really active as a kid. I was outdoors constantly.

Beth Riesgraf

#44. 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

#45. Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Thomas Beecham

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

Adam Nicolson

#47. The distinction between indoors and outdoors, which in England is usually so marked, was temporarily suspended in a hot gauzy haze.

Quentin Crisp

#48. 4x4 is 75% ability, and 25% equipment.

Jury Nel

#49. Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again.

Ernie Banks

#50. And if you don't spend every second outdoors, people think there's someting wrong with you.

Jeff Kinney

#51. We are telling our kids that nature is in the past and it probably doesn't count anymore, the future is in electronics, the boogeyman is in the woods, and playing outdoors is probably illicit and possibly illegal.

Richard Louv

#52. The best predictor of preschool children's physical activity is simply being outdoors.

James Sallis

#53. I just want to be in the moment and enjoy the outdoors and nature. Be able to take advantage of all the things God provided for us. That would be really nice.

Gabrielle Dennis

#54. I love the action that I'm able to do. I grew up in Maine, outdoors and playing with the boys and shooting skeet. I have my girly side, too. But, I do like playing the strong female roles, especially now with something as simple as Twitter, where you've got young women following you.

Rachel Nichols

#55. As a boy Id often spend my days biking on riverbeds and arroyos and come home exhausted. I realize now how much I took for granted having the natural world so close at hand. It wasnt until I moved away, first to New York and then to Los Angeles, that I realized how much I missed the outdoors.

Tom Hanks

#56. I love being outdoors and think a tan is very sexy. I'll lie out on white towels strewn with pillows. I don't like to hide under hats. If anyone knows about spending lots of the time on the beach, with kids and dogs in tow, it's me.

Pamela Anderson

#57. The only thing that really differentiates Texas from any other place in the world is the proclivity of its people to urinate outdoors and to attach a certain amount of importance to this popular pastime.

Kinky Friedman

#58. The Puerto Ricans who come to our cities today have no place to roast pigs outdoors...

Jane Jacobs

#59. O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors

Frank O'Hara

#60. It is never a waste of time to be outdoors, and never a waste of time to rest, even for a few hours.

May Sarton

#61. Why do they call it the Department of Interior when they are in charge of everything outdoors?

Steven Wright

#62. I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have to deal with it. In the gallery, it's the same 150 people on the San Francisco art scene. There's a dynamic on the street that's definitely more interesting.

Barry McGee

#63. For outdoors, he wears a mantle fastened at the shoulder with a clasp or chain; although buttons are sometimes used for decoration, the buttonhole has not been invented.

Joseph Gies

#64. Even now I steal outdoors in the dead of night to sit on the tree swing and watch the shadows breathe in the moonlight.

Debra K. Rodgers

#65. People outdoors here just scuttle in vectors from air conditioning to air conditioning. The sun is a hammer. I can feel one side of my face start to cook. The blue sky is glossy and fat with heat, a few thin cirri sheared to blown strands like hair at the rims.

David Foster Wallace

#66. I love to go out. I love the outdoors. I love outdoor sports. I'm a big traveler.

Sasha Alexander

#67. A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors.

Frank Butler

#68. A man thinks all dust stays outdoors.

Ernest Vincent Wright

#69. I'm simple. I love hiking, going to the gym, doing some simple stuff. I love being outdoors, I love bike riding. Just stuff that's fun!

Lea Michele

#70. I'm a big fan of bringing the outdoors in!

Clinton Kelly

#71. Our pool is outdoors, but it's heated, and I've got one of those machines that produces waves you have to swim against; like a jogging treadmill, really, only it's in water. Basically, it means you can have a small pool, swim for miles, and get nowhere.

Rupert Penry-Jones

#72. All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.

Seneca.

#73. It is the silence that frightens me so in the evenings and at night ... I can't tell you how oppressive it is never to be able to go outdoors, also I am very afraid that we will be discovered and be shot.

Anne Frank

#74. I shivered as the cold was all encompassing, not just from being outdoors, but from being read as well. He had a way of seeing through me. It was as unnerving as it was bonding and I couldn't figure out how the two could co-exist.

Donna Lynn Hope

#75. Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture.

Paige Butcher

#76. 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

#77. Everything tastes better outdoors.

Claudia Roden

#78. I'm not an outdoors person by instinct or nature. I'm more of a city person.

Jim Sturgess

#79. Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.

Dale Earnhardt

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

Fennel Hudson

#81. I spent a lot of time outdoors as a kid.

Joel Edgerton

#82. Any person who has spent time outdoors actually doing something, such as hunting and fishing as opposed to standing there with a doobie in his mouth, knows nature is not intrinsically healthy.

P. J. O'Rourke

#83. Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold. It plays house, as well as horse, having an instinct for it ... At last we know not what it is to live in the open air, and our lives are domestic in more senses than we think.

Henry David Thoreau

#84. And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul

John Muir

#85. I'd been doing projects outdoors for the public. I made pigeons eat geometry by putting bread out in rhomboids and triangles. I don't know if this activity made sense, but the work was available.

Jenny Holzer

#86. I think being raised spending so much time outdoors was really important - while you're in it, you might not know, but now I think of the things I was thankful for.

Jewel

#87. No, don't learn at karate schools. They overcharge you for karate uniforms. They make you pay, like, fifty or seventy-five bucks just for a karate uniform, and you don't wear a uniform in everyday life, so why train in one? Most fights take place outdoors, not inside with perfect lighting and mats.

Judah Friedlander

#88. Just because someone looks old doesn't mean he or she is. The skin of some people who spend a lot of time outdoors seems to age very rapidly. Someone can look 80 or 90 and only be 40 to 50.

S. Jay Olshansky

#89. I need to go outside. I wouldn't say I'm an outdoors person, but I like to go outside.

Edie Brickell

#90. My interest in wildlife began early and I don't know how early because it's the only thing I've ever been interested in. I've always had a certain curiosity, a certain wonder about the natural world. I like to be outdoors.

George Schaller

#91. The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much, or the environment would be even worse than it is already.

P. J. O'Rourke

#92. It must be nice to work outdoors in solitude, I thought. Problems start when you have to deal with people.

Amy M. Reade

#93. Folks have a common misconception that Mississippi is strictly a rural, outdoors state. While we are famous for our hunting, sport fishing and year-round golf, we also have leading manufacturers like Peavey Electronics and Viking Range Corp.

Gregg Harper

#94. I love the outdoors. I love to hike. I spend a lot of time in LA and so I hike all the hills.

Matthew Kane

#95. I never knew I liked to be outside so much. I never knew I liked lochs and views and that, but I could seriously handle living in a cottage by the side of somewhere like this.
The Panopticon

Jenn Fagan

#96. I am unboreable in the great outdoors.

P. J. O'Rourke

#97. Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.

Cherrie Moraga

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

Travis Polso

#99. There are men who love out-of-doors who yet never open a book; and other men who love books but to whom . . . nature is a sealed volume. . . . Nevertheless among those men whom I have known the love of books and the love of the outdoors, in their highest expressions, have usually gone hand in hand.

Nick Offerman

#100. We all love being outdoors. Grandma was in her garden or fishing; Mama loves to fish and I love to be outside. We all love the Lord.

Reba McEntire