Bertrand Russell Quotes

I never camped as a kid, but I really got into camping and sleeping outdoors. I've also done some amazing river floats in New Mexico and Idaho. It's peaceful and awesome.

I love hillwalking and have been doing a lot of climbing.

Mountaineering has always been a huge hobby of mine.

I can stand in a crystal stream without another human around me and cast all day long, and if I never catch a single fish, I can come home and still feel like I had a wonderful time. It's the being there that's important.

It's something he used to say when he was happy. It could be a very, very simple day. We might be sitting out on the front lawn. Dad loved classical music and we might be listening to some Stravinsky or something and having some tea and eggs. And he'd say, 'Oh, good stuff, isn't it?'

I've been doing a lot of hiking, which I love.

If I'm anywhere close to where I can hike or swim, that's my favourite thing to do.

I like being out there. I've done Snowdon, walked a bit of the Cleveland Way, did some of the Coast to Coast.

I'm really into rock climbing and hiking and stuff.

Sitting on a plastic chair at night listening to the sea lapping below while sipping a cold beer is about as good as life gets.

I love generally being out in nature. It is just so amazing.

Taken everything I've got, all I've got's this sunny afternoon.

We have produced some good walkers and saunterers, and some noted climbers; but as a staple recreation, as a daily practice, the mass of the people dislike and despise walking.

It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.

Relax! Life is beautiful!

I love playing with my dog and just sitting on the patio with people I don't get to see very often anymore. I'm a pretty simple gal.

I feel like the luckiest guy in the world sometimes, getting to go outside and play football with my friends.

There are so many fun places to hike.

I have this very simple logic about life that it should not be taken too seriously.

I lay my head down every night with a ton of gratitude.

When you've got everything you need, why complicate it?

Jack London is a very generous description of my small hiking, bicycling, and canoeing habit. I myself feel like a weak urbanite a lot of the time, because lots of my friends are incredible outdoorsmen and women.

Hiking a ridge, a meadow, or a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get. Hiking seems to put all the body cells back into rhythm. Ten to twenty miles on a trail puts one to bed with his cares unraveled.

I feel thankful to God, first and foremost, allowing me to enjoy this 'smell the roses' kind of thing.

It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker.