Adam Conover Quotes

I did grow up in Kenosha, Wisconsin, around a lot of my mom's family. I had a lot of cousins and aunts and uncles around me, and my sisters and my brother. Probably the most formative part of it was that we grew up on the edge of a forest. It wasn't a big forest, but it was enough. When you're a kid, it feels gigantic.

I think outdoors has been my second home. My parents wouldn't be like, "Go and do a puzzle," they'd be like, "Hey, there's a forest across the street. You need to go play in it."

I grew up in L.A. I actually grew up in the Valley, which was a pretty amazing place to grow up because everybody has nice, big backyards, and I was kind of a little nature being.

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.

When I was a kid, I was very lucky that I grew up in suburban Virginia, which, at the time, felt like a grey area between rural and suburban, so there were a lot of forests and parks.

I did grow up in a small town. I grew up in a lot of different places. But I consider my home to be Cleveland.

I grew up in Le Mars, Iowa, and even though it's a great place to grow up and be raised as a kid, there wasn't a lot to do. It was fairly boring, and I think the way I either escaped the boredom or found a way to keep myself occupied was through movies and TV shows.

We used to go in the woods by ourselves, and you can't help noticing the world then, especially animals. People used to know a lot about the natural world, especially in the country.

Israel is a wonderful place to grow up.

As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.

As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to explore the fields, woods and creek side. And to read.

When Beverly and I got together in 1992, and I moved to be with her in the little round house she'd built in the middle of 20 acres of woods near Amity, I found myself immersed in a natural setting that I responded to with all my being.

There isn't much of a music scene in Hermann, unless you like polka. But the landscape I grew up in is a part of me. I spent a lot of time in the woods doing a lot of nothing to break the boredom.

I had a happy childhood: extremely outdoorsy and independent.

I grew up in western Oregon, just outside Eugene, on 27 wooded acres that served as my playground.

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.

I grew up playing in the woods.

When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer.

I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.

I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.

Growing up in the country, you're left to the wilds of your imagination.

The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe.

I'm a country girl. We lived in a neighborhood, but at the back of the house, there was a little pathway with a creek and a trail. And we would go there, me and my brother. It was always an adventure in our imagination.

We all knew each other in the neighborhood. I loved living in El Paso. I had a wonderful childhood there.