Camping Quotes

“Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business. ”
― Dave Barry

“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, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

“It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.”
― Dave Barry

“In a well-ordered universe...camping would take place indoors.”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

“A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

“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, The Vinyl Princess

“I'm tired of being set upon by crazed Christians one minute and unbridled libertines the next. Girls, I'm going camping.”
― Bailey White, Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Living

“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, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

“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, Why Not Socialism?

“I swear there are about a million rocks underneath me," [Dylan] said grouchily.
Think of it as therapeutic. Like a shiatsu massage." (Sadie)
You obviously have a much better imagination than me," he said.”
― Sarah Mayberry, Take on Me

“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, The Wind in the Willows

“Black flies, no-see-ums, deer flies, gnats and mosquitoes were instituted by the devil to force people to live in cities where he could get at them better. If it weren't for them everybody would live in the bush and he would be out of work. It was a rather successful invention.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Camping Out

“The odor of citronella is not offensive to people. It smells like gun oil. But the bugs do hate it.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Camping Out

“Sure of his infallibility, he unzipped the insect mesh and let in a rowdy bachelorette party of mosquitoes that raided the human open bar”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less Is Lost

“I have stayed at the summit cabin of the Mauna Loa volcano.”
― Steven Magee

“Fly fishing is not a braggers game. There’s no glory to win. No competition or comparison between humans. It’s not about growing ego, but removing it. No fish will provide this lesson. It must come from the conscience of the angler. In the most simple explanation, fly fishing is an introspective quest to tame one’s own mind. This can be shared with others, but only discovered alone.”
― Daniel J. Rice, Familiar Waters: A lifetime of fly fishing Montana

“Stars really shine when camping!”
― Steven Magee

“I love camping under the starry nighttime sky!”
― Steven Magee

“All hail outdoorsy types.
Where would we be without them encouraging us up mountains or wheedling until we cave in and head into the wilderness with a sleeping bag on our back?
Camping - and its chi-chi cousin, glamping - lends itself perfectly to coorie.
Scotland's legal framework does, too: unlike England and Wales, where walkers must stay within set boundaries of the countryside, we can wander at whim.
The same rights apply to sleeping overnight, which makes wild camping one of the most treasured aspects to roaming in Scotland.
Hikers are safe in the knowledge that as long as they have a sensible tent and respect their surroundings, there is nothing to limit them.
Come nightfall the adventure is far from over.
In fact, a new one has just begun.”
― Gabriella Bennett, The Art of Coorie: How to Live Happy the Scottish Way

“In the daytime, set to work creating your coorie camp.
At night, it's time to appreciate it.
Technology has little place in coorie camping: this is a chance to chat properly, about ourselves, the universe and everything in between.
A bottle of whiskey may give way to the suggestion of skinny-dipping. I hear that's fun.”
― Gabriella Bennett, The Art of Coorie: How to Live Happy the Scottish Way

“Coorie camping is about leaving your expensive devices at home and feeling like a wildling for the weekend.
It's about taking turns to fetch water, boiling it and doling out cups of tea.
What feels like a chore at home becomes fun on a camping trip.
Decorate your tent with forest treasures until it looks like a woodland grotto and share memory games played in childhood with adult friends.
There is also the chance to get really good at making campfires.
Fire is our oldest and most ensuring form of heat and energy.
Is it any wonder it's so important to our coorie experience?”
― Gabriella Bennett, The Art of Coorie: How to Live Happy the Scottish Way

“Coorie camping gives life to experimentation.
Recipes cobbled together with what's left in our packs are part of the fun.
Have you ever eaten a griddled cheese toastie in the woods for breakfast?
The excitement is in the preparation; someone firing up the kettle for a round of coffees, someone else getting the table (an upturned log) ready while the chef eases the sandwiches over, molten goo seeping from the sides and filling the air with the smell of roasted cheese.
The radio might be on low, but more likely everyone is waking up slowly, listening to the sounds of the woods and working together to create a greater good.
It's not what you'd eat at home.
Any sense of a schedule is left behind and the experience is richer for it.
Told you a griddle pan was the key to happiness.”
― Gabriella Bennett, The Art of Coorie: How to Live Happy the Scottish Way

“My health issues are now fully understood, treated and I am back to normal. It was a mix of amino acid deficiencies and low testosterone causing serious food intolerance and altitude hypersensitivity to occur. Low magnesium was causing sleep apnea and I now take magnesium supplements. I had also lost my circadian rhythm and it restored while I was homeless and camping outdoors for five months in the Hawaiian jungle. Based on my testing, I will have to take amino acids, magnesium and testosterone for the rest of my life. The sickness comes back if I stop the supplements.”
― Steven Magee

“Give me a tent in a deserted place, give me a dark night, and I'll tell you what a terribly local, how pitifully ineffective and insignificant life you have!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Would you rather eat poison ivy or a handful of bumblebees?”
“What kind of question is that? … Why would I have to eat either one, ever? Exactly what type of camping are we doing?”
― Becky Dean, Love & Other Great Expectations

“Hey diary guy, please remind me to tell dad every time you stop walkin' on campin' vacation you eat food.”
― Mica Stone, Tatum Comes Home

“Nature is one of the most powerful human connectors in this world. We all feel it, see it, experience it, and embrace it. Some less than others, nonetheless we all experience it. The river belongs to all those who benefit from it. The wind kisses and touches all of us. The sun smiles at all of us. The mountains wait in eternity for us. A gold searcher, a nature yoga enthusiast, a camper, a hiker, a hunter, a fisher... all of us share nature as our common denominator.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“I lay on the grass with the air hanging around me, heavy and still. Not a sound disturbed the night save the trickle and truckle of two waterways, now seeming to chuckle together at some private joke. Perhaps they had seen the Devil ride out so often they found him ridiculous.”
― Dixe Wills, At Night: A Journey Round Britain from Dusk Till Dawn

“My attraction to wild places is, in part, an attempt to relive the innocence and imagination lost after youth. To be submersed in the innocence of a forest, the ungoverned landscape, to exist by my own laws and no one else’s, even if only briefly — this is one of the primary beacons that guides me back into wild places.”
― Daniel J. Rice, THE UNPEOPLED SEASON: A Journal of Solitude and Wilderness

“I get the feeling you don’t realize you’ve been camping all this time.”
― Michael E. O'Reilly, Jeweled Escapement