Famous quotes from famous people lift your spirits and brings encouragement to each day. And its always fun to read a few camping quotes now and again.
Quotes about camping warm the hearts of campers everywhere!
Here you'll find a silly camp quote or two, others are sober; all here for you to
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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
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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.
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 Quotes
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
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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
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