50 Backyard Quotes About Your Personal Refuge From the World

By Stephanie Kirby | Published July 25, 2023

Check out these backyard quotes to remind yourself just how important it is to have your personal oasis to retreat and recharge.

Backyards are the areas behind our homes where people often retreat to recharge from the fast-paced world.

Backyards are where many children first get to use their creativity and imagination when exploring, building forts, and playing.

We each need a place to be outside and enjoy relaxing or some of our hobbies.

If you don’t currently enjoy your backyard, there are many things you can do to add enjoyment:

Put in a pool.
Build an outdoor kitchen with a grill.
Add a playset for children.
Install a garden or greenhouse.
Install a covered deck or patio.

Take a look at these backyard quotes to remind yourself just how special your backyard can be.

Best Backyard Quotes

Here are some of the best quotes about backyards.

1. “My backyard is my refuge, my oasis.” — Martha Stewart

2. “Going beyond one’s backyard grants one perspective.” — Sara Genn

3. “My favorite place to read is next to the pond in my backyard.” — Rey Mysterio

4. “Real fall weather. Backyard bonfire perfection! My happy place!” — Aubrey O’Day

5. “I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.” — Annie Leibovitz

6. “My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.” — Sylvia Earle

7. “If I had a free afternoon, I would play music, sit in my backyard, and drink coffee.” — Aja Naomi King

8. “There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard.” — Patrick Rothfuss

9. “I was raised by vegan parents, and we ate out of my backyard garden for my whole life.” — Madelaine Petsch

10. “If you cannot find your heart’s desire in your own backyard, you never lost it, to begin with.” — Tony Kushner

Fun Backyard Quotes

As shown in these quotes, backyards are areas where many fun and good memories are made.

11. “What’s the big deal if I dress casually and dance in my backyard.” — Anushka Shetty

12. “I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.” — Rodney Atkins

13. “Camping in the backyard last night for Father’s Day! Wrestling, stories, s’mores… it was awesome!” — Drew Brees

14. “The softest thing I’ve ever heard are the wind chimes in my backyard. They are soft and cool and mellow.” — Ty Dolla Sign

15. “My dad never pushed me, but the big thing is that he helped me by going out in the backyard and playing with me.” — Bart Starr

16. “My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old… It was idyllic for a kid; I had a whole island for a backyard.” — Eric Stoltz

17. “People’s backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back onto railways are public benefactors.” — John Betjeman

18. “I’m going to take you home, to the world where you belong, where cats with bent tails live, and there are little backyards and alarm clocks ring in the morning.” — Haruki Murakami

19. “Backyard barbecues are really just about getting together. It’s all making people come over, having a really good time, talking about their lives, and sharing some great recipes.” — G. Garvi

20. “If I had a magic wand, I would live in a building in New York, big enough so my friends, my family could all have apartments in. We’d raise our kids in the same space and have backyard barbecues and get old and fat together.” — Liz Murray

Backyard Quotes About Things To Do In Backyards

Take a minute to check out these quotes about the many things you can do in your backyard.

21. “I loved having bonfires in the winter with my friends in the backyard.” — Tommy Dorfman

22. “A great barbecue is a tribute to the backyard heroes who put in the hours to perfect their craft.” — Tuffy Stone

23. “I haven’t changed. My family and I live as we did in South Spain. I’ve had loud music, chickens, birds, and a bull in my backyard.” — Charo

24. “My studio is designed for atmosphere. I have a really cozy, comfortable room that has a great, huge glass door that views my backyard.” — Geddy Lee

25. “Anyone can take an adventure, even if it’s only in your own backyard. Let your imagination be your adventure and see where it takes you.” — Carmela Dutra

26. “I grew up a single kid, and so my whole childhood was spent in my backyard dealing with imaginary circumstances and role-playing and stuff.” — Tony Todd

27. “I’m sort of an old man, always tinkering in the backyard. Since I grew up playing outdoors, I still like to plant things, sit out on the deck, or go hiking.” — Josh Duhamel

28. “Spending time in the backyard, helping out in the garden, going out to the lakes, reminds me of what’s important and allows me to realign myself.” — Kylie Bunbury

29. “I don’t have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields.” — Queen Latifah

30. “I’m ready for the barbecues and picnics; reading books in my hammock; lemon-berry iced tea and a rocking chair on the front porch, watching the sunset with friends; stargazing while eating s’mores in the backyard. Oh, summer… bring it on!” — Oprah Winfrey

Backyard Quotes About Nature and the Outdoors

For many people, the nature and outdoors aspect of backyards is the most enjoyable part.

31. “Nature is a tool to get children to experience not just the wider world, but themselves.” — Stephen Moss

32. “Children still need a childhood with dirt, mud, puddles, trees, sticks, and tadpoles.” — Brooke Hampton

33. “Nature poets can’t walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.” — Christian Wilman

34. “The really best acting is children in a playground or in a backyard. They’re just lost in their imagination.” — Nolan North

35. “So growing up, I was never sitting watching TV in the afternoons. I always played ball outside in the backyard.” — Gal Gadot

36. “In Canada, you can’t even have a barbecue in your backyard without being attacked by a moose or even a grizzly bear.” — Kurt Angle

37. “To raise a nature-bonded child is to raise a rebel, a dreamer, an innovator… someone who will walk their own verdant, winding path.” — Nicolette Sowder

38. “My father would give his dinner to any hungry kids who walked by and then go in the backyard and pick weeds from the yard to eat.” — Chi Chi Rodriguez

39. “We must teach our children to smell the earth, to taste the rain, to touch the wind, to see things grow, to hear the sunrise and nightfall—to care.” — John Cleal

40. “I had one of the most outdoorsy childhoods you could imagine. I basically lived in the woods until I was 13. My dad and I built a huge treehouse in our backyard in Chesterfield, about 30 feet in the air.” — Gabriel Basso

More Backyard Quotes and Sayings

Enjoy some more of the best quotes about backyards.

41. “If you cannot find your heart’s desire in your own backyard, you never lost it, to begin with.” — Tony Kushner

42. “I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate.” — Devon Werkheiser

43. “I wanted a house near my family in a quiet neighborhood with a front yard and a backyard that my dog will like.” — Kylie Jenner

44. “The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson

45. “Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone’s home and backyard.” — Vera Nazarian

46. “You can journey to the ends of the earth in search of success, but if you’re lucky, you will discover happiness in your own backyard.” — Russell Conwell

47. “You can spend your whole life traveling around the world searching for the Garden of Eden, or you can create it in your backyard.” — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

48. “The trees you planted in your backyard still shed leaves whenever I sit beneath it. My love, is it your way of telling me that you’re still here with me?” — Ashok Bishnoi

49. “Life’s too short to worry about what other people do or don’t do. Tend your own backyard, not theirs, because yours is the only you have to live in.” — Sherrilyn Kenyon

50. “Nature surrounds us, from parks and backyards to streets and alleyways. Next time you go out for a walk, tread gently and remember that we are both inhabitants and stewards of nature in our neighborhoods.” — David Suzuki