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Camping: nature's way of promoting the motel
industry. — Dave Barry, Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need
Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping
reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree,
something is wrong. — George Carlin
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
Camping: The art of getting closer to nature while getting farther
away from the nearest cold beverage, hot shower and flush toilet. —
Author Unknown
What I like about camping is you can get really dirty. Either you're
all by yourself, so no one else sees you, or everyone you're with is
just as dirty as you are, so nobody cares. — Anonymous former Boy
Scout, quoted in Highs! Over 150 Ways to Feel Really, Really Good
Without Alcohol or Other Drugs by Alex J. Packer
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
The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition. — Dave
Barry
I got into an argument with a girlfriend inside of a tent. That's a
bad place for an argument, because then I tried to walk out and
slammed the flap. How are you supposed to express your anger in this
situation? Zipper it up really quick? — Mitch Hedberg
We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth
and forgotten heaven. — Henry David Thoreau
Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing
each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got
scared. — Jack Handey
It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles,
against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent. —
Dave Barry
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. — Author Unknown
How is it that one careless match can start a forest fire, but it
takes a whole box to start a campfire? — Author Unknown
If you're not in New York, you're camping out. — Thomas E. Dewey
Jews don't go camping. Life is hard enough as it is. — Carol Siskind
A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer
camp. — Raymond Duncan
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to
look far to see the campfires of gentle people. — Garrison Keillor
How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this
glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone
on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special
nests we make - leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents
or piled stone - we all dwell in a house of one room - the world
with the firmament for its roof - and are sailing the celestial
spaces without leaving any track. — John Muir
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Quotations about Camping