40 Camping Quotes and Sayings to Enjoy the Great Outdoors

"Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization."
- Charles Lindbergh

"If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently."
- Bill Watterson

"Camping rules. Stare at the fire. Listen to the birds. Jump in the lake. Read. Take a nap. Relax. Watch the sunset. Cook over the fire. Breathe the fresh air."
- Unknown

"Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion."
- Lorraine Anderson

"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach of us more than we can ever learn from books."
- John Lubboc

"I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery. Air, mountains, tree, people. I thought: this is what it is to be happy."
- Sylvia Plath

"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 – even if it's just for a fleeting moment before the rain spoils everything."
- Pippa Middleton

"The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule."
- Giorgio Agamben

"The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom."
- Theodore Roosevelt

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
- Henry David Thoreau

"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

"Cooking and eating food outdoors makes it taste infinitely better than the same meal prepared and consumed indoors."
- Fennel Hudson

"A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars."
- Alan S. Kesselheim

"The glories of a mountain campfire are far greater than may be guessed."
- John Muir

"The fire is the main comfort of camp, whether in summer or winter."
- Henry David Thoreau

"I just want to live in a world of mountains, coffee, campfires, cabins, and golden trees, and run around with a camera and notebook, learning the inner workings of everything real."
- Victoria Erickson

"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

"In a cool solitude of trees, where leaves and birds a music spin, mind that was weary is at ease, new rhythms in the soul begin."
- William Kean Seymour

"We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven."
- Henry David Thoreau

"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity."
- John Muir

"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

"Some national parks have long waitlists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong."
- George Carlin

"Is it weird that I’m taking Louis Vuitton camping?"
- Jessica Simpson

"Camping: the art of getting closer to nature while getting farther away from the nearest cold beverage, hot shower, and flush toilet."
- Unknown

"A campfire is basically just a nightclub in the mountains."
- Unknown

"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

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

"Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business."
- Dave Barry

"Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally."
- John Muir

"Leave the road, take the trails."
- Pythagoras

"Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few are dirt."
- John Muir

"The wilderness holds answers to questions we have not yet learned to ask."
- Nancy Wynne Newhall

"Now I see the secret of making the best person, it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth."
- Walt Whitman

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep."
- Robert Frost

"I am most alive among the tall trees."
- John Muir

"Wilderness is not a luxury but necessity of the human spirit."
- Edward Abbey

"The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition."
- Dave Barry

"There’s no such thing as a bad camping trip – only unprepared campers."
- Unknown