Outdoor Reading Quotes

My favorite place to read is next to the pond in my backyard.

I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a "hypaethral book," such as Thoreau talked about - a book open to the sky. It is best read and understood outdoors, and the farther outdoors the better. Or that has been my experience of it. Passages that within walls seem improbable or incredible, outdoors seem merely natural. This is because outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.

My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.

I like to sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee on the terrace and read a book. I like to travel the world - and I'm lucky to see so much through cycling.

I have a screened in porch, and it's nice to curl up with a book outside when it's raining, especially an old battered classic like 'Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.'

I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.

Books are more real when you read them outside.

People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.

With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.