What are the best quotes on camping? And why do we need them?
There’s something special about camping. Maybe it’s the feeling of being one with nature, or the chance to disconnect from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. Whatever the reason, there’s no denying that camping is a great way to unwind, relax, and recharge.
If you’re looking for a little inspiration to get you in the camping mood, check out these quotes about camping. From well-known authors and celebrities to everyday people, these quotes capture the essence of what makes camping so special.
So what are you waiting for? Grab your tent and sleeping bag, and hit the great outdoors! Because here are the best quotes about camping.
Best Quotes on Camping
Here are the best camping quotes to inspire your next adventure.
“I just want to live in a world of mountains, coffee, campfires, cabins, and golden trees, and run around with a camera and notebook, learning the inner workings of everything real.” – Victoria Erickson
“When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.” – Tom Waits
“The outside is the only place we can truly be inside the world.” – Daniel J. Rice
This reminds me of wonderful Pismo Beach camping!
“Leave the road, take the trails.” – Pythagoras
“The wilderness holds answers to questions we have not yet learned to ask.” – Nancy Wynne Newhall
“The fire is the main comfort of camp, whether in summer or winter.” –Henry David Thoreau
“The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity.” – John Muir
“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” – Alice Walker
“We can never have enough of nature.” – Henry David Thoreau
“The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule.” – Giorgio Agamben
“I will never go home, I thought with a finality that made me catch my breath, and then I walked on, my mind emptying into nothing but the effort to push my body to the bald monotony of the hike. There wasn’t a day on the trail when that monotony didn’t ultimately win out, when the only thing to think about was whatever was the physically hardest. It was a sort of scorching cure.” – Cheryl Strayed
This quote reminds me of camping in Yosemite!
“Without the intense touch of nature, you can never fully freshen yourself! Go for a camping and there both your weary mind and your exhausted body will rise like a morning sun!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my sense put in order.” – John Burroughs
“Black bears rarely attack. But here’s the thing. Sometimes they do. All bears are agile, cunning and immensely strong, and they are always hungry. If they want to kill you and eat you, they can, and pretty much whenever they want. That doesn’t happen often, but – and here is the absolutely salient point – once would be enough.” – Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson is one of my favorite travel authors. And his book Walk in the Woods is a great best adventure book for couples.
“Wilderness is not a luxury but necessity of the human spirit.” – Edward Abbey
Short Camping Quotes
“In a well-ordered universe… camping would take place indoors.” – Morgan Matson
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein
“Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, kill nothing but time.” – Aliyyah Eniath
“I Googled my symptoms… turned out I just need to go camping.” – Unknown
“Going to the mountains is going home.” – John Muir
“A bad day camping is still better than a good day working.” – Unknown
Especially, if you glamping in Asheville!
“I had diverged, digressed, wandered, and become wild.” – Cheryl Strayed
“A bonfire is basically just a nightclub in the mountains.” – unknown
“I don’t need Therapy. I just need to go camping.” – Unknown
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep…” – Robert Frost
“Jobs fill your pocket adventure fills your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty
“In a cool solitude of trees
Where leaves and birds a music spin,
Mind that was weary is at ease,
New rhythms in the soul begin.
In a Cool Solitude of Trees” – William Kean Seymour
Hiking And Camp Quotes
“What could be smarter than going to camping in a deserted forest in a global pandemic time? However, even without such a pandemic, the smartest thing to do would be camping again!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
“When we would go camping in rural Wales, we would get sick. What I did not realize at the time was the sickness was a detoxification reaction from the toxic city environment that we normally lived in.” – Steven Magee
“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach of us more than we can ever learn from books.” – John Lubbock
“Far from the luxuries of home, camp life forces a slower, more thoughtful approach to living. Mornings are savored. Coffee is sipped rather than drained. Making meals is less a chore and more an event. An evening stroll replaces the nightly TV hypnosis. In short, for a few fleeting days, we are briefly, blissfully, beautifully human again.” – Mark Kenyon
“It’s impossible to go for a walk in the woods and be in a bad mood at the same time.” – Unknown
“The only vacation where you work harder preparing meals and caring for your living space than you do in your own freakin’ house.” – Unknown
“National park and reserves are an integral aspect of intelligent use of natural resources. It is the course of wisdom to set aside an ample portion of our natural resources as national parks and reserves, thus ensuring that future generations may know the majesty of the earth as we know it today.” – John F. Kennedy
Fun Camping Quotes
“It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.” – Dave Barry
“Cooking and eating food outdoors makes it taste infinitely better than the same meal prepared and consumed indoors.” – Fennel Hudson
“The mountains are calling and I must go!” – John Muir
“Good things come to those who camp.” – Unknown
“There’s no such thing as a bad camping trip – only unprepared campers.” – Unknown
“Donating blood, one mosquito at a time.” – Unknown
“My tent doesn’t look like much but, as an estate agent might say, it is air-conditioned and has an exceptional location.” – Fennel Hudson
“There is no point in hurrying because you are not actually going anywhere. However far or long you plod, you are always in the same place: in the woods.” – Bill Bryson
“Sleep under a blanket of stars, and your heart will forever be kept warm by your love of life.” – Anthony T. Hincks
“Camping is great for when you’re craving a horrible night’s sleep.” – Unknown
Quotes About Camping with Friends
“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
“Remember, a good marriage is like a campfire. Both grow cold if left unattended.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“There’s no wi-fi in the mountain but I promise you’ll find a better connection.” – Unknown
“Home is where you pitch your tent.” – Unknown
“The stars were better company anyway. They were very beautiful, and they almost never snored.” – David Eddings
“Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.” – Charles Lindbergh
“Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.” – Thomas Berry
“Wildness reminds us what it means to be human.” – Terry Tempest Williams
“…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
“Whatever form it takes, camping is earthy, soul-enriching and character building, and there can be few such satisfying moments as having your tent pitched and the smoke rising from your campfire as the golden sunsets on the horizon.” – Pippa Middleton
It’s when thinking is forced that nothing comes of it, but when it is left alone, that is when the ideas start to flow.” – Anthony T Hinck
Inspirational Quotes on Camping
“The glories of a mountain campfire are far greater than may be guessed.” – John Muir
“Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.” – Laurie Anderson
“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” – John Muir
“Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire.” – Stephen King
“If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.” – Bill Watterson
“I wanted to quit and to do this forever, sleep in a bed and in a tent, see what was over the next hill and never see a hill again. All of this all at once, every moment, on the trail or off.” – Bill Bryson
“I’d only wanted to be alone. Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren’t a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.” -Cheryl Strayed
“Roses are red, mud is brown, the woods are better than any night on the town.” – Earl Dibbles Jr.
Quotes on Camping and Nature
“Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.” – Lorraine Anderson
“Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture.”
“Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. It doesn’t argue that the good is bad, or the bad is good. What it does is to offer for art (and life) a different-a supplementary-set of standards.” – Susan Sontag
“Woods are not like other spaces. To begin with, they are cubic. Their trees surround you, loom over you, press in from all sides. Woods choke off views & leave you muddled & without bearings. They make you feel small & confused & vulnerable, like a small child lost in a crowd of strange legs. Stand in a desert or prairie & you know you are in a big space. Stand in the woods and you only sense it. They are vast, featureless nowhere. And they are alive.” – Bill Bryson
“My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.” – Claude Monet
“The wok is one of my favorite things to work with when I’m camping. Outdoor cooking is not just about hot dogs and hamburgers. There are so many styles of food you can make.” – Guy Fieri
“The parks do not belong to one state or to one section… The Yosemite, the Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon are national properties in which every citizen has a vested interest; they belong as much to the man of Massachusetts, of Michigan, of Florida, as they do to the people of California, of Wyoming, and of Arizona.” – Stephen Mather
Short Camping Quotes for Instagram
Here are some great camping captions that you can use for everything from Instagram to Facebook. These camping captions are great, but can also because as inspiration to come up with your own camping quote. Whether you Camping or glamping in Tennessee.
- Simple is better, I like simple campgrounds.
- Enjoy the simple things in life, like a good picnic, a warm fire and this quote 😎
- Camping is so much more than sleeping under the stars. It’s about cooking over a fire, sharing stories around a campfire and laughing until your stomach hurts while trying to stand up straight.
- A weekend spent with friends, family and the great outdoors-that’s what summer is all about.
- If you’re going to camp, make sure it’s for a weekend or longer. You need time to unwind, think, and reflect.
- Happy camping time! You can never have too much fun in the great outdoors.
- We’re all about #camping. It’s where we go to get away from the real world and reconnect with nature, myself included. This weekend, I’m in the mountains, overlooking trees and lakes. If you’re following along on Instagram, I guarantee your feed will look a little like this:
- Let’s all take a moment to relish in the joy of being outside and enjoy the simple things in life. #shortcampingquotes
- I love camping, but I hate hiking. 🍃🌲
- If camping is not a way of life, then it’s at least a lifestyle. If you are looking for the best Instagram captions for your camping journey, here are some inspirational ones.
- “Camping rules. Stare at the fire. Listen to the birds. Jump in the lake. Read. Take a nap. Relax. Watch the sunset. Cook over the fire. Breathe the fresh air.” – Unknown
- Camping is natures way of bringing you face to face with yourself.
Funny quotes on camping
Here are some great funny camping quotes from books, movies, and of course comedians. And while the camping sayings above are inspirational. I have a special place in my heart for a funny camping quote.
“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
“Some national parks have a long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong ” – George Carlin
In a well-ordered universe… camping would take place indoors. – Morgan Matson
“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
Is that weird, taking my Louis Vuitton bag camping? – Jessica Simpson
“Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.” – Bill Bryson
“How is it that one match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box of matches to start a campfire?” – Christy Whitehead
“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
Camping is nature’s way of promoting the motel business. – Dave Barry
“Camping is nature’s way of promoting the motel business.” – Dave Barry
From funny camping quotes to Instagram camping captions. There is a great quote and caption on this list to inspire the camper inside. So what are you waiting for, fuel you’re an inner camper, memorize your favorite camping caption, grab your camping gear, and head out into the wilderness.
And let me know what your favorite funny camping saying is your favorite. And of course, I hope you enjoyed these best quotes on Camping.