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  • Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?

    Mind   Purpose   Firsts  
    Howard Nemerov (1981). “Journal of the Fictive Life”, p.12, University of Chicago Press
  • I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.

    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.3143, Delphi Classics
  • 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.

    Running   Beach   Hiking  
  • In New York City, a lot of people think "the great outdoors" is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.

    Commencement Address At University Of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, www1.nyc.gov. May 11, 2007.
  • Genesee beer. The great outdoors in a glass.

  • All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

    Wise   Travel   Joy  
  • All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel

  • Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

    Travel   Home   Tired  
    "Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays".
  • I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.

    Life   Cutting   Wish  
    Walden ch. 2 (1854)
  • I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

    Walden ch. 2 (1854)
  • The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

    "Sun of gOd: Discover the Self-Organizing Consciousness That Underlies Everything". Book by Gregory Sams (p. 78), May 1, 2009.
  • I love Salt Lake City. It's beautiful with all the great outdoors around you.

    "Limericks". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. February 13, 2016.
  • I want my grandkids to grow up in the great outdoors. The last thing I want is for them to grow up to be nerds.

    Growing Up   Nerd   Want  
  • The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.

    Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.147, University of Arizona Press
  • And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

    Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.58, Lulu.com
  • I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.

    "Walden: Or, Life in the Woods".
  • Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.

    John Muir (2001). “The Yosemite”, p.177, Library of Alexandria
  • All those hours exploring the great outdoors made me more resilient and confident.

  • I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.

  • In wildness is the preservation of the world.

    "Walking" (1862)
  • It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

    Life   Wise   Wisdom  
    J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

    "The Wright Style". Book by Carla Lind, p. 3, 1992.
  • Going to the mountains is going home.

    Home   Adventure   Hiking  
    John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.721, Library of America
  • We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

    Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953”
  • A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

  • The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

    Wise   Travel   Trying  
  • We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.

    Jawaharlal Nehru (1983). “Jawaharlal Nehru's speeches”
  • I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

    Walden ch. 2 (1854)
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