Read a Famous Camping Quote

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 enjoy. Do you know a famous camping quote not included here? Tell us about it at the camping forums and we'll add it to this page.

Quotes about Camping

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
-Dan Quayle

 

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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

 

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  

Outdoors Quotes

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

 

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