Camping is an outdoor activity involving overnight stays away from home in a shelter, such as a tent or a recreational vehicle. Profoundly inspirational camping quotes will challenge the way you think, change the way you live and transform your whole life.
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Famous Camping Quotes
Whatever form it takes, camping is earthy, soul enriching and character building, and there can be few such satisfying moments as having your tent pitched and the smoke rising from your campfire as the golden sun sets on the horizon. Pippa Middleton
Camping is nature’s way of promoting the motel business. Dave Barry
Cooking and eating food outdoors makes it taste infinitely better than the same meal prepared and consumed indoors. Fennel Hudson
It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent. Dave Barry
I peered up through the tent’s mesh roof at faraway stars, faint glitter, giddy. Aspen Matis
What on earth would I do if four bears came into my camp? Why, I would die of course. Literally shit myself lifeless. Bill Bryson
Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing. I suppose some will wish to debate whether it is important to keep these primitive arts alive. I shall not debate it. Either you know it in your bones, or you are very, very old. Aldo Leopold
In a well-ordered universe camping would take place indoors. Morgan Matson
Light a campfire and everyone’s a storyteller. John Geddes
A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger. Edward Abbey
Far from the luxuries of home, camp life forces a slower, more thoughtful approach to living. Mornings are savored. Coffee is sipped rather than drained. Making meals is less a chore and more an event. An evening stroll replaces the nightly TV hypnosis. In short, for a few fleeting days, we are briefly, blissfully, beautifully human again. Mark Kenyon
Mom, camping is not a date; it’s an endurance test. If you can survive camping with someone, you should marry them on the way home. Yvonne Prinz
Of course, not everybody likes camping trips. I do not myself enjoy them much, because I’m not outdoorsy, or at any rate, I’m not outdoorsy overnight without a matress wise. There’s a limit to the outdoorsiness to which some academics can be expected to submit. G.A. Cohen
I’m tired of being set upon by crazed Christians one minute and unbridled libertines the next. Girls, I’m going camping. Bailey White
You may be a little cold some nights on mountain tops above the timber line, but you will see the stars. John Muir
Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing. I suppose some will wish to debate whether it is important to keep these primitive arts alive. I shall not debate it. Either you know it in your bones, or you are very, very old. Aldo Leopold
What could be smarter than going to camping in a deserted forest in a global pandemic time? However, even without such a pandemic, the smartest thing to do would be camping again! Mehmet Murat ildan
Late in the evening, tired and happy and miles from home, they drew up on a remote common far from habitations, turned the horse loose to graze, and ate their simple supper sitting on the grass by the side of the cart. The stars grew fuller and larger all around them, and a yellow moon, appearing suddenly and silently from nowhere in particular, came to keep them company. Kenneth Grahame
Camping is nature’s way of promoting the motel business. Dave Barry
You long to go ito nature because nature doesn’t care about you. To be clear, it’s not that nature sees you, accepts you for who you are, and loves you anyway nature just doesn’t give a shit about you. Diana Helmuth
It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent. Dave Barry
If you see a campfire as just a fire, your imagination is very weak, because it is not a lifeless warmth, but a mysterious friend who came to visit you in the darkness of the forest and shared your food, dreams and life! Mehmet Murat ildan
How is it that one match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box of matches to start a campfire? Christy Whitehead
One of the best experiences of my life came out of one of the worst experiences. Steven Magee
What on earth would I do if four bears came into my camp? Why, I would die of course. Literally shit myself lifeless. Bill Bryson
Wherever you camp in the world, the campfire will be one of the things that sticks in your memory the most! Mehmet Murat ildan
A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger. Edward Abbey
Like many children, I had a telescope from a young age. I was familiar with some constellations and the moon and planets. I always enjoyed looking up at the night sky and seeing the few stars up there in the orange sky in Liverpool, UK. The streetlights made it hard to see much of the night sky in Liverpool. I always enjoyed my camping trips to rural Wales because there were few streetlights and the night sky was actually black! It was a very different night sky, far more stars and the cloud of the Milky Way could be seen. Steven Magee
Camping is not a date; it’s an endurance test. If you can survive camping with someone, you should marry them on the way home. Yvonne Prinz
Camping is the best school for us in the matters of understanding both the amazing mind and the mysterious soul of nature! Mehmet Murat ildan
Campgrounds are never comfortable. They are merely less awful than other options. In normal circumstances, if told that the nearest available toilet was half a mile away, up a dirt path frequented by animals in gastric distress, one would lock the doors and speed to civilization. When a tent or camper is involved, one is jubilant. At least this site had flush toilets! Thomm Quackenbush
And in my boyhood, I have wandered oft a week of days in that Country of Silence, and had my food with me, and slept quietly amid the memories; and gone on again, wrapped about with the quiet of the Everlasting. William Hope Hodgson
If I went on vacation, I’d rather go camping than stay in some four star hotel. Travis Fimmel
Bob repeats an option that sounds pretty close to the birds I’ve been hearing in the morning. Not knowing amy species, I’ve been referring to them mentally as the happy birds. Versus crows and ravens, which are never happy. And seagulls and pigeons. which are just plain annoying. Lisa Gardner
Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong. George Carlin
I have stayed at the summit cabin of the Mauna Loa volcano. Steven Magee
Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing every year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared. Jack Handey
The odor of citronella is not offensive to people. It smells like gun oil. But the bugs do hate it. Ernest Hemingway
My fear of camping I’m convinced bugs will crawl up my vagina and lay eggs. Isn’t everyone? Kathy Griffin
I walked slowly to enjoy this freedom, and when I came out of the mountains, I saw the sky over the prairie, and I thought that if heaven was real, I hoped it was a place I never had to go, for this earth was greater than any paradise. Daniel J. Rice
We had come a far piece into a strange land, a trail lit by lonely campfires. Louis L’Amour
The outside is the only place we can truly be inside the world. Daniel J. Rice
Fire’s the sun, unwindin itself out o the wood. David Mitchell
The stars were better company anyway. They were very beautiful, and they almost never snored. David Eddings
The campfire is the most important part of camping. It’s far more than just a source of heat or light. It’s the heart of civilization. All other activities revolve around the fire. David Lubar
Very few things in life can be so exhilarating as a cabin in the middle of the forest and loving life effortlessly while enjoying the smell of freshly ground heaven in your hot cup, in front of a fireplace. Sweet Solitude, you have taught me to live with very little. So very little it turned out to be a luxury. Efrat Cybulkiewicz
Before men ever dreamed of shelter, campfires were their homes. Sigurd Olson
Cooking and eating food outdoors makes it taste infinitely better than the same meal prepared and consumed indoors. Fennel Hudson
Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves. Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Without the intense touch of nature, you can never fully freshen yourself! Go for a camping and there both your weary mind and your exhausted body will rise like a morning sun! Mehmet Murat ildan
Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night? Rudyard Kipling
You need to be outdoors. Away from here. You need a holiday. Fennel Hudson
It’s easier to throw sticks on the campfire than to try to restart it when it goes out. Cynthia Lewis
I might ask you one day to go camping, and if you have the desire to dance. Paige Lewis
The onlookers watched as the fire snapped and popped, observing the flames encircle the logs. Bits of blue and green intertwined with the blazing orange and yellow. The smoke rose high above the campfire, lifting glowing embers. Ann White Lombardi
To think about our bodies as horses to be ridden or even temples to be occupied, is to create a duality between our thinking and our body. It is like a tourist who arrives in a wild forest in his or her Recreation Vehicle. We have all see those campers with their televisions, and so on. Are they experiencing the nature around them? They have an insular experience, that is, camping without getting their hands dirty. Laurence Galian
The echoes of beauty you’ve seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire. Ernest Hemingway
This moment of recognition reflected back at me in her face. It’s not even something I can see, but something I feel. It’s not my mom and my dad or my brothers. It’s me. My own confusion, my own fear. She could look like a stranger to me, and I’d still feel it as plainly. Emma Lord
Young people knew what had happened to the world because their elders communicated it to them around the campfire. Rick Steber
An eternity at Prince Rhen’s side, surviving his monster, surviving Lilith, surviving as a guardsman, and I’m going to die in the leaves beside a campfire because I was stupid. Brigid Kemmerer
The first campfire didn’t exist until something nearly human shambled over and camped near it. Buck Tilton
My tent doesn’t look like much but, as an estate agent might say, It is air conditioned and has exceptional location. Fennel Hudson
Remember, a good marriage is like a campfire. Both grow cold if left unattended. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There is nothing worse, after days of falling asleep by a babbling brook and waking up to a choir chirping birds, than to go inside a house with insulated walls and an obstructive roof. This torturous invention, a cage, a box, prevents you from seeing or hearing anything of natural importance. Make time to free yourself and find a bit of nature. Katherine Keith
You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That’s the fellowship that they want to be in. John Eldredge
You may be a little cold some nights on mountain tops above the timber line, but you will see the stars, and by and by you can sleep enough in your town bed. or at least in your grave. Keep awake while you may in mountain mansions so rare. John Muir
Once all the power goes out, there will still be human beings standing together around a campfire, playing acoustic guitars. Jim James
Far from the luxuries of home, camp life forces a slower, more thoughtful approach to living. Mornings are savored. Coffee is sipped rather than drained. Making meals is less a chore and more an event. An evening stroll replaces the nightly TV hypnosis. In short, for a few fleeting days, we are briefly, blissfully, beautifully human again. Mark Kenyon
My tent doesn’t look like much but, as an estate agent might say, It is air conditioned and has exceptional location. Fennel Hudson
Escape to nature is not only a simple escape from stupidities in the city, but also a great refreshment to better fight fools and stupidities when you return to the city! Mehmet Murat ildan
I’ve been camping and stuff, but if you left me in the woods I’d probably just curl up and cry until someone found me. Norman Reedus
After finding the migration trail of the Porcupine caribou, I began to cry uncontrollably, realizing that in this vast and untamed wilderness, I was like them While being tortured by hellacious mosquitoes, soaked by torrential rains, and stalked by grizzlies and wolves, we were all trying to stay moving, and we slept and ate only to continue our forward progress. Andrew Skurka
When I returned to camp, they walked behind me on the trail, and we spoke not a word about getting skunked today, but rather talked about the days we returned with a stringer full of fish, and how we filleted them and the left the guts out for bears and eagles, and how those fish tasted fresh when we fried them over a fire. Daniel J. Rice
When we would go camping in rural Wales, we would get sick. What I did not realize at the time was the sickness was a detoxification reaction from the toxic city environment that we normally lived in. Steven Magee
