Exploring Nature Quotes

Guy Nearing told us it's a good idea when hunting mushrooms to have a pleasant goal, a waterfall for instance, and, having reached it, to return another way. When, however, we're obliged to go and come back by the same path, returning we notice mushrooms we hadn't noticed going out.

Everyone started to have a camera. That's when I started to travel outside of New York and go into nature.

My own passion for caravan holidays has been occasionally commented on by the media. It is certainly something that I am proud of.

What I like to do is get the family in the pick-up truck... and then we just go for a drive. That's it!

To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.

There are lots of places I would love to go to in Europe and North America.

Wherever you go, man-made things are man-made, but you’ve got to get out and see God’s beauty of the world.

When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, [I] submit myself to my instinct to decide for me.

If with me you'd fondly stray Over the hills and far away.

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."

People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

Photography just gets us out of the house.

I like to take long drives.I like to just enjoy the world and know what it is.

As a kid, I was just led out in the morning to go spend my day with my friends and just run in the woods. And I'd only come home to eat or when I was thirsty.

Make time less precious. We are way too efficient, making use of every hour, every minute. When you were a kid, didn’t you just spend hours poking sticks in the mud, climbing trees and sitting in them, looking at shells and seaweed that washed up on the shoreline? Time was not precious then, we weren’t trying to stuff an accomplishment into every minute every day, we had time for thoughts and feelings. That was good!

Wander a whole summer if you can. Thousands of God's blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a sponge, and the big days will go by uncounted. If you are business-tangled and so burdened by duty that only weeks can be got out of the heavy laden year, give a month at least. The time will not be taken from the sum of life. Instead of shortening, it will indefinitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.

I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.

He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.

What I remember the most really was just running wild there. Barefooted, swimming in dirty lakes, selling fruit, picking mango trees, hoping not to get caught because they don't take kindly to thieves in Africa.

If I had my life to live over, I would try to make more mistakes. I would relax. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I know of very few things that I would take seriously. I would be less hygienic. I would go more places. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less spinach. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary troubles.

I've been to your mountains, I've been to your sea-side, and everywhere I went somebody's wanted a free ride.

When I go train hopping and I look up into the sky, there are always so many more stars than I remember there were.

Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!