Outdoor Living Quotes

Grizzly Adams did have a beard.

What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

When I was 12, my mum put us in a summer camp meant for children from low-income families. It was in upstate New York where we had to live in tents, fetch water, cook our meals, and even dig our own toilet bowls.

An extended stay in the wilderness inevitably directs one's attention outward as much as inward, and it is impossible to live off the land without developing both a subtle understanding of, and a strong emotional bond with, that land and all it holds.

I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.

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.

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

In the Middle East in the summertime, to keep cool, a lot of people sleep on the rooftops.

I like my garden. It sounds boring, but it's not.

I love gardens!

An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.

Living at the beach, it's hard to get out of the sun.

Way of life in Australia focuses more on the outdoors.

They are travelling cheaply, with that touch of indolence and occasional luxury that comes only from having real resources. They live in Levis and sunlight. Sometimes they brush their teeth in streams.

To be able to buy a plant and plant it, that's a luxury to me.

I'm a self-taught landscape gardener; it's a real passion of mine. It's what I do in my spare time because trees don't ask questions!

The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.

A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of the woods. "The pale white man!" I do not wonder that the African pitied him.

I'm happier in a garden.

One thing I loved about New Zealand was the indoor/outdoor lifestyle of the place.

I moved at age 22 to Montana to be able to walk in really wild woods, where the chances of being killed by a bear or mountain lion are not zero.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

I got too old to live in the bush. You really need to be youngish and healthy, so it seemed stupid to keep going.