Kate Klise Quotes

I don't know if nature is a direct literary influence on my writing, but it is certainly important to me. I take great joy in writing about it. It is something I have taken with me from my childhood; the body exposed to the threat of the physical world and at the same time being at home in it.

It's either I have to be in the trees or in the ocean, otherwise I lose my mind. I have to get connected with nature, otherwise I don't feel very good. And that's what life's about, feeling good, so nature knows best for me.

When you surround yourself with nature, it's really powerful.

I'm happier and a better person when I work out, especially if I work out outdoors.

Being in nature is very important to me. I'm not a glamour puss.

Time spent in nature is the most cost-effective and powerful way to counteract the burnout and sort of depression that we feel when we sit in front of a computer all day.

I'm so convinced that hiking helps my writing that I recently decided to offer a series of hiking-writing workshops to see if others had the same experience.

The Loro Piana man is a very active one: he works hard, and when he has time off, being close to nature is important to him.

I think one of the most important things is just being outside and in touch with nature. You need it!

Well, a funny thing, there are three that I like all for the same reason, golf, fishing, and shooting, and I do because first, they take you into the fields. There is mild exercise, the kind that an older individual probably should have. And on top of it, it induces you to take at any one time 2 or 3 hours, if you can, where you are thinking of the bird or that ball or the wily trout. Now, to my mind it is a very healthful, beneficial kind of thing, and I do it whenever I get a chance, as you well know.

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.

I learn something every time I go into the mountains.

I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.

When I get home from a heavy work day, I make sure I get outside with the kids. I don't think there's any better cure than being active as a family outside.

Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some space to do that. Take your child fishing. Take your child on hikes.

But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.

The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.

When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went home and sat down to write, and the material for the book just came flooding into my hands.

Journaling is something that I've always tried to get into.

I am an outside person; if I don't get outside, I get a little crazy.

Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.

I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.

Few experiences help our kids discover the distinction between needs and wants like the great outdoors.

I have this exercise that I propose to everybody: Hug a tree and complain for a minimum 15 minutes. Be yourself, and do something that you really feel deeply.

When I need to complete a project of primary importance, I'm around nature a lot.