Grow up Quote by Adam Conover

I fell in love with the land and with the very old fashioned idea of leaving a physical legacy for my children. A stunning…

— Val Kilmer

I grew up swimming. Our first house in Aldridge, in the West Midlands, had a pool at the bottom of the garden.

— Ellie Simmonds

It is one thing to hear about the forest and the river, but an entirely other experience to go there, to see the environment,…

— Chris Kilham

Mine wasn't a lakes-and-boats kind of childhood. I grew up on a Glasgow council estate with a single mother. For our holidays, we went…

— Kelly Macdonald

I was interested in the environment from when I was a little kid. I spent most of my time hunting and fishing and kayaking.

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

— Virgil

I was a bit of a wild boy - always swimming and exploring the mountains.

— Nobu Matsuhisa

I grew up by the Mississippi River, and I would swim in that as a kid.

— Madison Keys

My engagement with mountains, rivers, and forests has been right from my childhood. I have lived in the jungles by myself; I have floated…

— Jaggi Vasudev

I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going…

— Rachel Boston

I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.

— Aidan Chambers

I was born by the river, in a little tent, and just like the river I've been running ever since.

— Sam Cooke