Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Quotes

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.

My kids all do love to hunt and fish. When they get together, I think that's what they get together more for than anything else.

I grew up in Texas in a family that fished and hunted, so I've shot guns as a kid.

I want to get people to connect to the outdoors.

I worry that more and more kids my age are growing up without experiencing the outdoors, which means that fewer will care about the natural world.

Just about every weekend when I was growing up, we would throw rods and rifles and tents and shovels and pickaxes into the back of the truck and then head off to the side of a mountain or the bottom of a canyon. Hiking, fishing, hunting, rock-hounding: this is how my parents passed the time.

As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.

I don't spend a lot of time in nature. Probably less than most people that live in urban Texas.

There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is good for their kids but they don't know where to start.

I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have.

I grew up in West Palm Beach, Florida. My dad took me hunting, trapping and fishing when I was a kid.

Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some space to do that. Take your child fishing. Take your child on hikes.

I grew up hunting and fishing in Land Between the Lakes. I have so many great memories of camping with my mom over at Redd Hollow.

I learned from my parents to revere nature. Their way of teaching my siblings and I to respect the environment was to be in it, and so we spent a great deal of time outdoors.

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

The time will soon be here when my grandchild will long for the cry of a loon, the flash of a salmon, the whisper of spruce needles, or the screech of an eagle. But he will not make friends with any of these creatures and when his heart aches with longing, he will curse me. Have I done all to keep the air fresh? Have I cared enough about the water? Have I left the eagle to soar in freedom? Have I done everything I could to earn my grandchild's fondness?

Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.

I want the cleanest water, the freshest air and wildlife in abundance... but most of all I want a future for our children.

I was always writing about the connection between man and nature. I grew up in a neighborhood that was right on the beach, but the beach was not like a beach you would imagine - there was a lot of pollution. And the most magical thing to me as a kid was sea glass, so I wrote about that a lot.

I enjoy hunting, but if I had my choice to go deer hunting or bass fishing, I'd take bass fishing any day of the week. I enjoy both of them, but yeah, I'm a very outdoorsy guy.

If you're imaginatively responsible to the place you live in, you understand the watershed.

To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.

Love the woods and nature and the water and animals. Stop the BS with poaching and hunting. Preservation is critical.

We humans still have a long way to go with learning to live harmoniously with our environment and its wildlife.

It's probably hard to feel any sort of Romantic spiritual connection to nature when you have to make your living from it.