Fun Quote by Loudon Wainwright III

I grew up in Belle Harbor, which is in New York City, but it has the most powerful sense of nature and seasons. It…

— Joel Sternfeld

I have very fond memories of swimming in Walden Pond when we lived in Boston. You'd swim past a log and see all these…

— Mark Haddon

“My purpose in going to Walden Pond was not to live cheaply nor to live dearly there but to transact some private business, with…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the…

— Jon Krakauer

John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote in his journal that you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you'll never be…

— Tom Bodett

“Whatever the water touched was riparian: that moist layer of air and rich earth along the shore was an Eden for many forms of…

— Brian K. Friesen

“Thoreau the “Patron Saint of Swamps” because he enjoyed being in them and writing about them said, “my temple is the swamp… When I…

— Henry David Thoreau

I'm quite good at water skiing. Dave Clark, from the 1960s band Dave Clark Five, taught me how to water ski in Spain one…

— Tony Blackburn

I grew up on Cape Cod. We didn't live right on the water, but I could walk to it and did every day.

— Andrea Barrett

“The lake hadn’t been frozen long and of all them had been expressly forbidden to go out on it, but Norman Pye, who was…

— Mary Lawson

“And behind all this human movement the ocean bobbed and folded and slid, for nothing could keep still, not people, not water, not time.”

— Ian McEwan

“My family never went skiing. My dad was afraid of heights and my mom felt that a vacation was only a vacation if it…

— Lisa Greenwald