Read a Famous
Camping Quote!

Reading famous quotes from famous people lifts your spirits and brings encouragement to your day. Its always a joy to read an uplifting camping quote now and again.

Here are a few camping quotes to warm your heart!

You'll find a silly camping quote or two, others are sober; all here for you to enjoy. Do you know a famous camping quote not included here?
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Camping

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

On Fame's eternal camping-ground
Their silent tents are spread,
And Glory guards with solemn round
The bivouac of the dead.
-Theodore O’Hara (1820–1867)

The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition.
-Dave Barry --American writer, b.1947

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.
-Thomas E. Dewey

She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies.
-Mavis Gallant

Any man, in the right situation, is capable of murder. But not any man is capable of being a good camper. So, murder and camping are not as similar as you might think.
-Jack Handy

Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.
-Dave Barry --American writer, b.1947

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
-Garrison Keillor --American writer and broadcaster b.1942

It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.
-Dave Barry --American writer, b.1947

The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness.
-Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist

But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes a very centre of civilization to you: “Home is home, be it never so homely.
-Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist

Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.
-W. C. Fields --US actor, 1880-1946

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
-Jimmy Carter --39th president of the United States (1977-81), b.1924

Hiking

Backpacking: An extended form of hiking in which people carry double the amount of gear they need for half the distance they planned to go in twice the time it should take.
-Unknown

A funny thing to do is, if you're out hiking and your friend gets bitten by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going to go for help, then go about ten feet and pretend that *you* got bit by a snake. Then start an argument with him about who's going to go get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke.
-Jack Handy

I love that whole princess mentality, but I also like throwing my hair in a ponytail and just wearing jeans, going on a hike and then eating a big chili-cheeseburger.
-Jennifer Love Hewitt

I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
-Calista Flockhart --American TV actress, 1964