Outdoor Exploration Quotes

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.

The idea of lying on a beach as my main thing just sounds like the worst. It sounds horrible to me. I would go bonkers. I would have to be on serious drugs. I'd be super-duper bored. I like high intensity.

I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.

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

Everyone started to have a camera. That's when I started to travel outside of New York and go into nature.

In my youth, I spent my time investigating insects.

I can't tell people to love mountains. They have to find their own way.

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.

As a teenager, I was very much a people pleaser and that excludes being adventuresome at all. I was a Boy Scout though and so that's as adventuresome as I got.

What I want to do with my filmmaking is help kids experience the truth and wisdom of nature no matter where they are, whether or not they have the opportunity to go to a national park.

Tell them to go and see their own land—visit the National Parks…

Let your walks now be a little more adventurous.

About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing was the trusty bandanna. There were dozens of uses for a bandanna - as a pot holder, a chain cleaner, a sun shield, a headband, a snot rag, a declaration of Kerouacian intent.

There are many different ways now to experience nature. Get out there and hike.

Like many New Mexicans, I enjoy spending time outdoors and understand how important New Mexico's natural beauty and resources are.

I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood.

In my walks I would fain return to my senses.

EarthEcho Expeditions represents the culmination of more than a decade of working with educators and youth from around the world. EarthEcho Expeditions uses the thrill of adventure to inspire and empower a new generation of environmental champions.

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

Specifically choose not to take a GPS. Just create a challenge. You can climb Everest or walk across Antarctica with minimal gear and still have that sense of adventure. But in terms of exploration, Google Earth has this world mapped down to the square foot.

Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime.

You conquered the landscape with the soles of shoes, not the tires.