Top 100 Quotes About Camping
#1. You need to be outdoors. Away from here. You need a holiday.
Fennel Hudson
#2. I do not own any camping gear, but this is not a problem, as I have watched every season of Survivor.
David Thorne
#3. When homeless people go camping, how do they know?
Dana Gould
#4. He tells about his Sudanese roommate at Georgetown who owned a prayer rug with a compass to find Mecca built right into it. "After a few weeks in America, he rolled it up and used the compass to go camping," Han says.
Diana Abu-Jaber
#5. Liebenthal's camping, and he's got more dakka than you. You're fucked if you go in together.
Claire Ashecroft
Matthew Graybosch
#6. Mom, 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
#7. My dreams are tangled in images of stars and clouds and firelight - we go camping at night - it's my lucid dream of being with you ...
John Geddes
#8. Of course, not everybody likes camping trips. I do not myself enjoy them much, because I'm not outdoorsy, or at any rate, I'm not outdoorsy overnight-without-a-matress-wise. There's a limit to the outdoorsiness to which some academics can be expected to submit.
Gerald A. Cohen
#9. The stars were better company anyway. They were very beautiful, and they almost never snored.
David Eddings
#10. Our band had perfected the art of punk-rock camping, throwing a bunch of crap into the van with, like, an hour's notice and just driving out into the mountains, where we'd drink beer, burn food, jam on our instruments around the campfire, and sack out under the open sky.
Gayle Forman
#11. The first stage of camping always involves a trip to an outdoor equipment store like REI. These stores are well known for their abundance of white customers and their extensive inventory of things for white people to buy and only use once.
Christian Lander
#13. If you're not in New York, you're camping out.
Thomas Dewey
#14. I went camping and borrowed a circus tent by mistake. I didn't notice until I got it set up. People complained because they couldn't see the lake.
Steven Wright
#15. Canoe plus waterfall equals I don't go camping anymore.
Demetri Martin
#17. Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it does rain, the person in the cheap tent chances soaking in his sleeping bag, and possibly dying of hypothermia.
William T. Vollmann
#18. Campingfahrt means not, as you might imagine, an unfortunate incident with Libby in a tent ... . It means "camping trip." I think I have a natural talent for languages.
Louise Rennison
#19. I don't understand camping. It's organized inconvenience.) "If
Meg Cabot
#20. I walked slowly to enjoy this freedom, and when I came out of the mountains, I saw the sky over the prairie, and I thought that if heaven was real, I hoped it was a place I never had to go, for this earth was greater than any paradise.
Daniel J. Rice
#21. When a black person has no electricity, no water, they call it the ghetto. When white people have no electricity and no water, they call it camping.
Carlos Mencia
#22. I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have.
Lou Henry Hoover
#23. I try to appreciate the simple things. I've just been camping with my son and I enjoyed that just as much if not more than a holiday in a posh hotel. I like making a cup of tea and bacon sarnie in the morning.
Bill Bailey
#24. Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.
Dave Barry
#26. Even more beautiful than the land that we passed, or the months spent camping on the plains, was learning to live with uncertainty.
Rinker Buck
#27. I went camping in the Maasai Mara and we moved site every night. I had no idea how spectacular it would be, how removed from ordinary life, or how many animals we would see.
Georgina Chapman
#28. Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.
Peter Agre
#30. We're not much of a camping family. When I was in Cub Scouts, we went camping once, and my dad snored the whole time and kept me up. It wasn't that fun.
Chandler Riggs
#31. My tent doesn't look like much but, as an estate agent might say, "It is air-conditioned and has exceptional location.
Fennel Hudson
#32. we remain children as long as we feel the urge to keep crossing this border and to learn.
Peter Nadas
#33. I've got two shirts still missing from the Bahamas. I'm sure they are part of a youth camping programme somewhere in Tanzania by now.
David Lange
#34. People are complicated; you can't label 'em with a word.
Fredric Brown
#35. Some people think that going on a caravan holiday is a slightly more upscale version of camping. Let me assure you, it is much better than that. You know that you will have your creature comforts wherever you are. I never have to pack light, and I can put the kettle on in any location.
Margaret Beckett
#36. A perfect day would be to get into the car, drive out to Yosemite and go camping.
Michael Steger
#37. ...our own barbaric civilization, in awe of the act of creation, does not respect creation at all.
Peter Nadas
#38. I am not a person of nature. I love to think of myself as one, but I've never even gone camping.
Mila Kunis
#39. I wonder what goes on night and day beneath the surface of a cemetery.
B. Traven
#40. Damn if that man didn't look as good as a double bacon cheeseburger, after a week spent camping with my vegan friends. Fuck my life.
Madeline Sheehan
#41. I enjoy doing fun things outdoors with my son to stay in shape. We like camping together. After a weekend in the woods, I'm sorer than after a week at the gym!
Beth Riesgraf
#42. The problem with winter sports is that
follow me closely here
they generally take place in winter.
Dave Barry
#43. (For better or for worse, my dad taught me that the best place to pitch a tent will always be the spot marked NO CAMPING.)
Elizabeth Gilbert
#44. Do not collaborate with someone you would not go camping with.
Dan Poynter
#45. The thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read.
Donald Barthelme
#46. I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more.
Nolan Gould
#47. Still, we often talked on the farm of the Safaris that we had been on. Camping places fix themselves in your mind as if you had spent long periods of your life in them. You will remember a curve of your wagon track in the grass of the plain, like the features of a friend.
Karen Blixen
#48. Contrary to popular opinion, my dad was not a lazy man. He was not lazy at all, for instance, when it came to Going Places In His Truck. He was also very industrious about Preparing To Go Camping. And if something really interested him, he would work on it all day.
Haven Kimmel
#49. World Christians are heaven's expatriates, camping where the Kingdom is best served.
David Bryant
#50. i ain't got the energy to argue. i'm an old man and i got to take a shit.
Johnny Shaw
#51. The sadness is under the thoughts. It's like when you're on a camping trip, and it's really cold, and you put on extra socks and an extra sweater, but you still can't get warm, because the coldness is in your bones.
Brandon Stanton
#52. The trouble is that when most people are apathetic ordinary people ... have to go too far, have to ruin their lives and be made an object of scorn just to get the point across. Did they really think I'd rather be camping by a polluted river than sitting in my own flat with my things about me?
Jeanette Winterson
#53. Make yourself invisible, or get busy with something.
Robert Walser
#54. A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars.
Alan S. Kesselheim
#55. A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
Edward Abbey
#56. I'm never going to live this down. I will forever be known as the pastor's kid who got arrested, made friends in jail, and threw up on the singles camping trip. That will look great on a resume.
A.C. Williams
#57. I accidentally brought my graphing calculator camping.
Ian Anderson
#58. I like going to museums and stuff, but I also like going out and doing lots of physical activity like camping and hiking. I like doing stuff that I've never done before. Curiosity is a big thing. Usually it means that people are intelligent and that they want to learn stuff about the world.
Nicholas D'Agosto
#59. 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
#60. I married a woman who loves to camp, and I am what you would call "indoorsy" ... My wife always brings up, "Camping's a tradition in my family." Hey, it was a tradition in everyone's family 'til we came up with the house.
Jim Gaffigan
#61. I was exposed to nature by my mother who loved camping, so I always enjoyed the outdoors and that has been a lasting passion. We went on nature walks and I became fascinated with the environment as I got older.
Paul Walker
#62. there's nothing worse on this earth than privileged bureaucratic assholes who work the system. they never get caught, and if they do, there are no real consequences.
C.J. Box
#63. Camping in the backyard last night for Father's Day! Wrestling, stories, s'mores ... it was awesome!
Drew Brees
#64. My fear of camping: I'm convinced bugs will crawl up my vagina and lay eggs. Isn't everyone?
Kathy Griffin
#65. Lake Pend Oreille is definitely my favorite place to be while in Sandpoint. I love to get out on a boat to enjoy water sports, camping, fishing, or just to relax and catch a sunset.
Nate Holland
#66. Ah, the Wonderful World of Camping - may it rot in hell.
P.C. Cast
#67. And now, we have no option. We can't say 'maybe' 'it's possible' 'it looks very probable ... ' No way! We have to say this is what the Bible teaches! This is fact! May 21, 2011 is the day of the Rapture, it is the day that Judgment Day begins ...
Harold Camping
#68. Before you find yourself stranded in the woods with a cranky apex predator, ask yourself: Do I really want to go on a camping trip with a vampire? The answer is probably going to be no.
Molly Harper
#69. If you lived next door to me and didn't know what I did, you wouldn't know I was a celebrity. I don't have that lifestyle, nor do I want that lifestyle. I want to know that I can have a separate life with my wife and my kids and just be normal and go camping and fishing and outdoor stuff.
Bill Engvall
#70. I think the craziest thing I've seen is probably a fan sleeping overnight for two nights before a show, which was probably a bit excessive - they still probably could have been first either way! But I guess it turned into a really exciting, sort of, camping-out trip for them so it was cool.
Hoodie Allen
#71. What on earth would I do if four bears came into my camp? Why, I would die of course. Literally shit myself lifeless.
Bill Bryson
#72. I look at camping the same way I look at horror movies. All the years that humans fought to get into caves and into shelters - it almost seems sacrilegious to go outside and sleep without a roof. We work so hard to have these things!
Chuck Klosterman
#73. The normal storyline of a horror film or a slasher film is the young, beautiful college folks go camping and get systematically killed by the person in a mask. So that's how it normally is.
John Schneider
#74. Try to recall the person you thought you were and the moment you began to realize you are not that person, and try to grasp and appreciate the high quality of lunacy required for you to have ever thought you were that person.
Padgett Powell
#75. I see no hope for a revival among God's people today. They are so enamored and so cluttered up with Hollywood and newspapers and magazines and parties and bowling alleys and camping trips and everything else. How in the world are they going to get still long enough to see anything from God?
Lester Roloff
#76. if one could learn the most important things in life, one would still have to learn how to keep quiet about them.
Peter Nadas
#77. Nature's beauty never fails to fill me with a sense of wonder and awe, and still, I refuse to go camping.
Dov Davidoff
#78. She had got it into her head that we, her little family, would go on camping trips. Cook freshly caught trout beside a lake where the sun never set. I hope she got there with her drinking.
Jo Nesbo
#79. White people love rock climbing almost more than they love camping. This is
because the activity affords them the opportunity to be outside, to use a carabiner for something other than their keys, and to purchase a whole new set of expensive activity-specific clothing and accessories.
Christian Lander
#80. Just think of a safe location."
"Are there tennis balls in the soup?"
"Come on, be serious."
"A pear camping highway fire mask," he said, more intensely.
My heart rate, which had finally started slowing, sped up again.
Susan Bischoff
#81. If I went on vacation, I'd rather go camping than stay in some four-star hotel ... My friends treat me the same at home. They just want to sit down with you and have a beer.
Travis Fimmel
#82. I love kids, outings, camping, sports, Legoland, all the Daddy stuff. I love it. I wish I could just do that, but I have to work, too.
Mekhi Phifer
#83. most reviews are written by morons about morons. sensibility is at a premium in american culture these days.
Jim Dodge
#84. If camping is so great, why are the bugs always trying to get in your house?
Jim Gaffigan
#85. Oh, Jack, look how beautiful. Jack, look how darling that monkey is.
It was like going camping with Merry Little Sunshine.
Cindy Roland Anderson
#86. I like golf, hiking, camping, boating and fishing.
Bryan Clay
#87. For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too. For a bit longer relaxation, I enjoy camping. Just being in the wilderness, with no phones or computers or anything I have to do really refreshes my spirit.
Ellen Hopkins
#88. The outside is the only place we can truly be inside the world.
Daniel J. Rice
#89. Develop a checklist of items you always want with you when camping or traveling.
Beth Beutler
#90. I found Elvis on the Internet, I went camping with a young cadet, he showed me his bayonet.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
#91. Sometimes, when we are far from clocks and schedules, we can still recapture a lost sense of place-based time. On a relaxing camping trip or a long day outdoors, perhaps, we can slip back into the rhythm of the sun.
Richard J. Borden
#92. George Sears, called Nessmuk, whose "Woodcraft," published in 1884, was the first American book on forest camping, and is written with so much wisdom, wit, and insight that it makes Henry David Thoreau seem alien, humorless, and French.
John McPhee
#93. Why do you have your gun out?" she whispers, following right behind me. "Always be prepared," I tell her as we step inside. I close the door behind me, locking the deadbolt and the top lock. "Boy Scout motto, isn't it?" "Yes, but when they go camping, they bring extra matches. Not firearms.
Karina Halle
#94. For sure, Potrero Chico is a super nice winter vacation climbing area. It's really convenient to fly into Monterrey, one of the nicer cities in Mex, and get a taxi to Potero. Then you can just live in the camping area and walk everywhere. It's muy tranquilo, as they say there.
Alex Honnold
#95. I've been camping and stuff, but if you left me in the woods I'd probably just curl up and cry until someone found me.
Norman Reedus
#96. I grew up camping with my family. We took so many trips. We had an RV, actually, when we were growing up. We did a ton of camping trips and went across the country.
Kirsten Lepore
#97. October of 2011, Occupy protestors descended upon McPherson Square, and they decided to stay. Despite the clear language of the law, these protestors camped at McPherson Square with the definition of camping being sleeping or preparing to sleep.
Trey Gowdy
#98. I don't like to camp. Early on, Mars is going to be camping. I think there are people far better suited to do that than me. But when the first Holiday Inn Express shows up, maybe I'll go.
Gwynne Shotwell
#99. It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.
Dave Barry
#100. Take your tent and go for the camping! You are dying in the cities! Thousands of stars, hundreds of birds, tens of flowers are waiting for you to heal you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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