Ann Bancroft Quotes

I'm an urban person who loves living in the country.

Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

I like out, I like the outside world.

I spent most of my formative years in rural Oregon.

I have memories of being on the farm with my grandfather.

I'm from Minnesota. I like to be barefoot, running through the woods.

My favorite thing to do in the summer was to sleep out in the forest on the farm I grew up on.

One of the things I enjoy is the challenge of Mother Nature.

I would hate to live in the country, unless I was living on a farm.

I live way out in the country, in truck-country.

I want my children to live in the country, to be a part of nature.

My parents wanted me to grow up around horses and open spaces.

I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.

I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.

Now I live in the middle of nowhere on a working cattle ranch.

I try to be outdoors as much as I can.

I wanted to go out and experience the fields.

The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.

I love being outdoors. I love listening to the crickets. I want to embrace nature.

I'm a Vancouver boy, and I grew up outdoors, so any time I can be outside, everything is good.

I did a lot of canoe tripping earlier on. I was on 10 trips, and I would get the feel of the forest and the wilderness, you know, that I always knew was in my soul to begin with.

Hiking is a great passion of mine, and I find myself picking up empty bottles.

Growing up in rural Ohio, I knew my way around a double-wide pretty well.

I didn't really grow up watching a lot of films. I grew up in the middle of Texas in a very rural area, so we were always outside fishing or playing a sport - we were never in front of a TV watching films.

My earliest memory was going to my grandma's house, milking the cows, and collecting the eggs from the chickens.