John Burnside Quotes

I like to play golf. I like to cut my own grass.

It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park.

Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.

I love the Park. I like to walk on the East River, too, up at Gracie Square, but Central Park is my favorite part of the city.

I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.

There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air.

By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished because it's forever changing with the seasons.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding.

A walk in nature is a perfect backdrop to combine exercise, prayer, and meditation while enhancing the benefit of these activities.

I'm really big on day dates. If you go for a stroll, have a picnic or lunch with a glass of wine - it doesn't get better than that.

Working in a garden calms me down.

Probably my favourite winter-word of all. Apricity is the warmth of the sun on a chilly day.

I love the Pembroke coastal path. Whenever I've been there, it's been sunny, but slightly bracing. So you're happy to keep walking, but you'll get a bit of a tan. The wildflowers and the insects are great and you'll occasionally see a small mammal.

I like walking in Golden Gate Park.

Nature recharges me.

Almost all the golf courses in Staten Island double as something else.

One of the great things about New York is this wonderful park we have.

Walking is my hobby, and I'm lucky that I live right on the edge of Hampstead Heath.

In Sun Valley, people play tennis and then go for a hike. You should be too tired to go for a hike!

I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.

Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer

Your car, comfort though it be, this little den and dining room on wheels, is a prison that deadens your senses, and to feel wholly alive you must go for a walk.