Camping is all about heading into nature and spending time away from our comforts. We have scoured the internet to put together this comprehensive list of the best camping quotes. If you are hoping for a smile we included funny camping quotes and funny camping sayings because, let’s face it, sometimes camping can get you into some pretty ridiculous situations.
If you are looking for anything from campfire quotes to quotes about camping with friends to cute camping quotes we have you covered!
Whether you are a first time camper that needs some inspiration or someone who goes camping every chance you get, you will find the camp quotes you are looking for in this list.
We quit our jobs over 10 years ago to travel the world and during that time we have done lots of camping in many different locations including Canada (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan), Bhutan, Antarctica, Morocco, Peru, Mexico, Hawaii, and Mongolia, just to name a few.
We have combined some of our great camping pictures with our favourite camping sayings.
So whether you are camping in an RV park, trying out van life, tenting in a national park or getting away from it all by heading out into the wilderness you will find the perfect camper quote in our list.
Jump ahead to your favourite category or just start scrolling to find your favourite quote about camping.
Camping Quotes
Here are a few of our favourite camping quotes.
“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 sun sets on the horizon.” – Pippa Middleton
“Cooking and eating food outdoors makes it taste infinitely better than the same meal prepared and consumed indoors.” – Fennel Hudson
“I peered up through the tent’s mesh roof at faraway stars, faint glitter, giddy.” – Aspen Matis
“Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing. I suppose some will wish to debate whether it is important to keep these primitive arts alive. I shall not debate it. Either you know it in your bones, or you are very, very old.” – Aldo Leopold
“Light a campfire and everyone’s a storyteller.” — John Geddes
“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
“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.” – G.A. Cohen
“You may be a little cold some nights on mountain tops above the timber-line, but you will see the stars” – John Muir
“In a well-ordered universe…camping would take place indoors.” – ― Morgan Matson
“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
Funny Camping Quotes
If you are looking for funny camping quotes, this section is for you. These funny quotes about camping will tickle your funny bone. If you like funny quotes and sayings, you should also check out our lists of Funny Good Morning Quotes, Funny Love Quotes, Funny Work Quotes, Funny Quotes of the Day, Funny Quotes About Life and Funny Inspirational Quotes.
“Camping is nature’s way of promoting the motel business. ” – Dave Barry
“It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.” – Dave Barry
“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, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
“A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.” – Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
“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
“Campgrounds are never comfortable. They are merely less awful than other options. In normal circumstances, if told that the nearest available toilet was half a mile away, up a dirt path frequented by animals in gastric distress, one would lock the doors and speed to civilization. When a tent or camper is involved, one is jubilant. At least this site had flush toilets!” – Thomm Quackenbush
“If I went on vacation, I’d rather go camping than stay in some four-star hotel.” — Travis Fimmel
“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
“Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing every year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared.” — Jack Handey
“My fear of camping: I’m convinced bugs will crawl up my vagina and lay eggs. Isn’t everyone?” – Kathy Griffin
Camping Sayings
There are a lot of famous camping sayings that are used all the time even though no one knows who said them originally. Here are some of the best.
“There’s no wi-fi in the mountain but I promise you’ll find a better connection.”
“Camping – because therapy is expensive.”
“Home is where you pitch your tent.”
“Good things come to those who camp.”
“There’s no such thing as a bad camping trip – only unprepared campers.”
“It’s impossible to go for a walk in the woods and be in a bad mood at the same time.”
“Life is best when you’re camping”
“Home is where you park it.”
“Just another coffee drinker with a camping problem”
“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.”
“Camping hair don’t care”
“Cold air dark night warm fire bright stars.”
Funny Camping Sayings
And of course, we had to add a funny camping sayings section. You might like our list of Funny Sayings.
“A bad day camping is still better than a good day working.”
“I Googled my symptoms… turned out I just need to go camping.”
“A campfire is basically just a nightclub in the mountains.”
“Donating blood, one mosquito at a time.”
“Campers have smore fun”
“I don’t need Therapy. I just need to go camping.”
“I do have a retirement plan … I plan on camping”
“Camping: The art of getting closer to nature while getting farther away from the nearest cold beverage, hot shower, and flush toilet.”
“A bad day camping is still better than a good day working.”
Campfire Quotes
There is something wonderful about sitting around a campfire while camping and these campfire quotes are great for describing that feeling.
“Gather wood, build a fire, stay up all night with the fire and stars.” – Antler
“We had come a far piece into a strange land, a trail lit by lonely campfires” – Louis L’Amour
“Fire’s the sun, unwindin’ itself out o’ the wood.” – David Mitchell
“The campfire is the most important part of camping. It’s far more than just a source of heat or light. It’s the heart of civilization. All other activities revolve around the fire.” – David Lubar
“Before men ever dreamed of shelter, campfires were their homes.” – Sigurd Olson
“Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves.” – Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
“Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?” – Rudyard Kipling
“It’s easier to throw sticks on the campfire than to try to restart it when it goes out.” – Cynthia Lewis
“The onlookers watched as the fire snapped and popped, observing the flames encircle the logs. Bits of blue and green intertwined with the blazing orange and yellow. The smoke rose high above the campfire, lifting glowing embers.” – Ann White Lombardi
“The echoes of beauty you’ve seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.” – Ernest Hemingway
“Young people knew what had happened to the world because their elders communicated it to them around the campfire.” – Rick Steber
“The first campfire didn’t exist until something nearly human shambled over and camped near it.” – Buck Tilton
“Remember, a good marriage is like a campfire. Both grow cold if left unattended.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Quotes About Camping with Friends
If you are looking for quotes about camping with friends then this is the section for you. Check out our other quotes about friends including Short Friendship Quotes, True Friendship Quotes, and Best Friend Quotes.
“The stars were better company anyway. They were very beautiful, and they almost never snored.” – David Eddings
“You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That’s the fellowship that they want to be in.” – John Eldredge
“Once all the power goes out, there will still be human beings standing together around a campfire, playing acoustic guitars.” – Jim James
“Welcome to our campsite where friends and marshmallows get toasted at the same time”
“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.” — G. Randolf
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” — Helen Keller
“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” -Leo Buscaglia
“Never let your best friends get lonely…keep disturbing them.” — Candlelight Publications
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.“ — Linda Grayson
“Friends are the family you choose.“ — Jess C. Scott
“Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.” — Misty Copeland
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” ― Jim Morrison
“If you are ever lucky enough to find a weirdo, never let them go.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
Fun Camper Quotes
These are our favourite fun camper quotes.
“My tent doesn’t look like much but, as an estate agent might say, “It is air-conditioned and has exceptional location.” – Fennel Hudson
“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
“When I returned to camp, they walked behind me on the trail, and we spoke not a word about getting skunked today, but rather talked about the days we returned with a stringer full of fish, and how we filleted them and the left the guts out for bears and eagles, and how those fish tasted fresh when we fried them over a fire.” – Daniel J. Rice
“Anna had read books about people in the cities going camping. They would leave their comfortable homes and beds and deliberately sleep in tents, on the ground, then cook their food outside over an open fire instead of in a well-stocked kitchen. She couldn’t imagine something so ridiculous.” – Gail Sattler
“Your swag or mine?” – L.J. Fox
“I grew up with the smell of the lake and the feeling of the woods.” – Steven Tyler
“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
“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
“There is no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.” — Bill Bowerman
Inspirational Quotes on Camping
We gathered the best inspirational camping quotes to motivate you to get out on your next camping adventure. If you like these inspirational quotes on camping check out our lists of Short Inspirational Quotes, Inspirational Morning Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Today, Funny Inspirational Quotes and Inspirational Quotes for Work.
“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
“Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, kill nothing but time.” – Aliyyah Eniath
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” -– Henry David Thoreau
“The molting light glowed on the horizon where darkness wriggled itself free and shook off the sun like the nymphal skin of a mayfly. The magenta sky fell down. Golden embers of fire disappeared into darkness. This was a mysterious world and he wanted to paint it. He wanted to capture it the way he saw it now. He crawled into his tent and fell asleep to the thought that we are all painters of a mysterious world, a world of colors only magic could explain, and viewed only through the prismatic distortion of our own eyes.” – Daniel J. Rice
“You don’t have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will bring interested people to your campfire.” – Shannon L. Alder
“Deep silence fell about the little camp, planted there so audaciously in the jaws of the wilderness. The lake gleamed like a sheet of black glass beneath the stars. The cold air pricked. In the draughts of night that poured their silent tide from the depths of the forest, with messages from distant ridges and from lakes just beginning to freeze, there lay already the faint, bleak odors of coming winter.” – Algernon Blackwood
“I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.” – Henry David Thoreau
“The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule.” — Giorgio Agamben
It is like a tourist who arrives in a wild forest in his or her Recreation Vehicle. We have all see those campers with their televisions, and so on. Are they experiencing the nature around them? They have an insular experience, that is, camping without getting their hands dirty.” – Laurence Galian
“Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.” — Alexander Eliot
Camping and Hiking Quotes
We love how you can truly get out into the wilderness when you hike to a backcountry campsite. And these hiking and camp quotes say it all. You should also check out our list of the Best Hiking Quotes, Funny Hiking Quotes and Best Trekking Quotes.
“Each evening, I ached for the shelter of my tent, for the smallest sense that something was shielding me from the entire rest of the world, keeping me safe not from danger, but from vastness itself. I loved the dim, clammy dark of my tent, the cozy familiarity of the way I arranged my few belongings all around me each night.” – Cheryl Strayed, Wild
“Hiking to a backcountry campsite is the best way to truly get away.” – Laynni Locke
“Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature’s darlings.”— John Muir
“The old school of thought would have you believe that you’d be a fool to take on nature without arming yourself with every conceivable measure of safety and comfort under the sun. But that isn’t what being in nature is all about. Rather, it’s about feeling free, unbounded, shedding the distractions and barriers of our civilization—not bringing them with us.”
― Ryel Kestenbaum, The Ultralight Backpacker
“Hiking and happiness go hand in hand or foot in boot.” – Diane Spicer
“To wake up on a gloriously bright morning, in a tent pitched beneath spruce trees, and to look out lazily and sleepily for a moment from the open side of the tent, across the dead camp-fire of the night before, to the river, where the light of morning rests… to go to the river and freshen one’s self with the cold water, and yell exultingly to the gulls and hell-divers, in the very joy of living; or to wake at night, when you have rolled in your blankets in the frost-stricken dying grass without a tent, and to look up through the leaves above to the dark sky and the flashing stars, and hear far off the call of a night bird or the howl of a wolf: this is the poetry, the joy of a wild and roving existence, which cannot come too often” – Josiah Edward Spurr
“Never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost, and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that.” — Ellen DeGeneres
“Hiking’s not for everyone. Notice the wilderness is mostly empty.” – Sonja Yoerg
“Trails are like that: you’re floating along in a Shakespearean Arden paradise and expect to see nymphs and flute boys, then suddenly you’re struggling in a hot broiling sun of hell in dust and nettles and poison oak…just like life.” – Jack Kerouac
“Not all who wander are lost.” – JRR Tolkien
“The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot” – Werner Herzog
“There is always an adventure waiting in the woods.” – Katelyn S. Bolds
“Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.” – Jeffrey Rasley
“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” – Frank A. Clark
“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.” – Edward Abbey
“The danger of adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.” – Paulo Coelho
“We don’t stop hiking because we grow old. We grow old because we stop hiking.” – Finis Mitchell
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cute Camping Quotes
We couldn’t pass up adding some cute camping quotes. Pick your favorite quotes about camp now! You might also like our list of Short Cute Quotes.
“I might ask you one day to go camping, and if you have the desire to dance.” – Paige Lewis
“And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” – Shanti
“Roses are red, mud is brown, the wood are better than any night on the town.” – Earl Dibbles Jr
‘Morning. You found somewhere to camp then?” – Raynor Winn
“…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
“What’s that? French press. For coffee? Real coffee? Not instant? We’re camping, Zorie, not living in a dystopian nightmare.” – Jenn Bennett, Starry Eyes
“Is it weird that I’m taking Louis Vuitton camping?” — Jessica Simpson
“I think camping is one of those things where if you’re forced into it as a child, you’ll probably hate it as an adult.” — Jeremy Irvine
Quotes on Nature and Camping
Camping is when you can really get back to nature. You might also want to check out our list of the Best Short Nature Quotes and Nature Quotes.
“There is nothing worse, after days of falling asleep by a babbling brook and waking up to a choir chirping birds, than to go inside a house with insulated walls and an obstructive roof. This torturous invention, a cage, a box, prevents you from seeing or hearing anything of natural importance. Make time to free yourself and find a bit of nature.” – Katherine Keith
“Here is a great day, here is a perfect choice! A camp in nature! What else do you need? You don’t have to dream because you are in a dream now!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
“My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.” – Claude Monet
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my sense put in order.” — John Burroughs
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” — Albert Einstein
“To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.” — Terry Tempest Williams
“There is nothing worse, after days of falling asleep by a babbling brook and waking up to a choir chirping birds, than to go inside a house with insulated walls and an obstructive roof. This torturous invention, a cage, a box, prevents you from seeing or hearing anything of natural importance. Make time to free yourself and find a bit of nature.”― Katherine Keith
“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 Lubboc
If you like this quotes head to our lists of Sky Quotes, Lake Quotes, River Quotes, Mountain Quotes, and Sea Quotes
“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
“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” -Laura Ingalls Wilder
“The more civilized man becomes, the more he needs and craves a great background of forest wildness, to which he may return like a contrite prodigal from the husks of an artificial life.”— Ellen Burns Sherman
“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.”— William Kean Seymour
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery. Air, mountains, tree, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.’”— Sylvia Plath
“Escape to nature is not only a simple escape from stupidities in the city, but also a great refreshment to better fight fools and stupidities when you return to the city!”― Mehmet Murat Ildan
“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
Happy Quotes About Camping
We gathered a few happy quotes about camping and camp quotes that made us smile. If you like these quotes check out our list of Short Happy Quotes, Happy Quotes About Life, Be Happy Quotes and Funny Happy Quotes.
“I peered up through the tent’s mesh roof at faraway stars, faint glitter, giddy.” – Aspen Matis
“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
“Sleep under a blanket of stars, and your heart will forever be kept warm by your love of life.” — Anthony T. Hincks
“If I went on vacation, I’d rather go camping than stay in some four-stay hotel.” – Travis Fimmel
“Now I see the secret of making the best person, it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.” – Walt Whitman
“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
“If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.” — Bill Watterson
Short Camping Instagram Quotes
If you want a caption for your next Instagram post or other social media these short camping quotes for Instagram will work perfectly. If you like to use short quotes for captions check out our list of best Short Quotes.
“The outside is the only place we can truly be inside the world.” – Daniel J. Rice
“The glories of a mountain campfire are far greater than may be guessed.” — John Muir
“A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars.” – Alan S. Kesselheim
“You need to be outdoors. Away from here. You need a holiday.” – Fennel Hudson
“The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” — Anne Lamott
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep…” – Robert Frost
“Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire.” – Stephen King
“A perfect day would be to get into the car, drive out to Yosemite, and go camping.” — Michael Steger
“The wilderness holds answers to questions we have not yet learned to ask.” — Nancy Wynne Newhall
” In the woods we return to reason and faith.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!” — John Muir
“Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.” – Barry Finlay
“The fire is the main comfort of camp, whether in summer or winter.” — Henry David Thoreau
“We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.” – — Henry David Thoreau
“Wilderness is not a luxury but necessity of the human spirit.” — Edward Abbey
“Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.” — Charles Lindbergh
“I went camping for 33 days, and now everybody seems to care.” — Colleen Haskell
“The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition.” — Dave Barry
Bonfire Quotes and Sayings
You’ll love these bonfire quotes and sayings.
“Bonfires dot the rolling hillsides figures dance around and around to drums that pulse out echoes of darkness and moving to the pagan sound.” – Loreena McKennitt
“You light the Spark in my Bonfire Heart.” – James Blunt
“The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.” – Terence McKenna
“I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain… Because it’s summertime, which means that it’s bonfire season and it’s raining all the time.”
“the conversation began crackling merrily like a kindling bonfire.” – Leo Tolstoy
“Everything looks prettier with a bonfire glow around it.”
“You’re so golden.” — Harry Styles
“I’m a fire, and I’ll keep your brittle heart warm.” — Taylor Swift
“Break out the sweatshirts and the s’mores supplies, the bonfires lit!”
“I know how to make a little bonfire, fight off some coyotes, or whatever we got to do.” – Colton Underwood
“I like to go to the beach, have a bonfire, and play music.” Colbie Caillat
“When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.” – Shunryu Suzuki
“Your practice should be strengthened by the difficult situations you encounter, just as a bonfire in a strong wind is not blown out, but blazes even brighter.” – Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Campfire Captions
Check out these campfire captions for the next time you’re hanging out by the fire.
Outdoor days and campfire nights
Find your fire
Running around a bonfire is the perfect way to spend a summer night
We’re all fired up
It’s quite literally lit
Summers are all about the beach and bonfires
If you like these captions head to our lists of Funny Summer Captions and Funny Beach Captions
I’d like to see you s’more
Life is s’more fun around a campfire with your friends
Roast a marshmallow and party s’more
Lighting up the night sky
Turn every hour into golden hour
Snap, crackle, pop
Camping Captions
We put together a full list of the best Camping Captions to use for pics from your camping trip but here is a smaller list of our favourites.
- Camp is my second home
- Camping we will go!
- Weekend forecast: Camping
- Living that camping life
- Camp more worry less
- Life’s short – pitch the tent
- Let’s sleep under the stars
- Every season is camping season
- Camping rules. Stare in the fire. Listen to the birds.
- Every hour is golden hour around the campfire
- Born to camp. Forced to work.
- Life is better when you are camping at the lake
- The s’more the merrier
- Gone campin’
- Camping time y’all
- Camp, rinse, repeat
So that’s our list. We hope you found the quote about camping you were looking for among this extensive list of quotes on camping.
We also have other lists of quotes and captions about nature including the sun, waterfalls, sunsets , forests, rivers, lakes, trees, mountains, the sea, sunshine and sunrise.
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