120 Camping Quotes For Passionate Nature Explorers

If your definition of fun is spending the night under the starry sky, this collection of camping quotes is for you.

Read the best camping quotes from famous people who share your passion for exploring and enjoying the outdoors.

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10 Best Camping Quotes

1. “Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.” — Charles Lindbergh

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2. “Camping is nature’s way of promoting the motel business.” — Dave Barry

3. “A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars.” — Alan S. Kesselheim

4. “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” — Albert Einstein

5. “If you can survive camping with someone, you should marry them on the way home.” — Yvonne Prinz

6. “The outside is the only place we can truly be inside the world.” ― Daniel J. Rice

7. “I have never been lost, but I will admit to being bewildered for several weeks.” — Daniel Boone

8. “The stars were better company anyway. They were very beautiful, and they almost never snored.” ― David Eddings

9. “Sleep under a blanket of stars, and your heart will forever be kept warm by your love of life.” — Anthony T. Hincks

10. “The fire is the main comfort of camp, whether in summer or winter.” — Henry David Thoreau

Camping Quotes To Inspire Your New Adventure

1. “If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.” — Bill Watterson

Tents in nature representing an inspiring camping quote.

2. “I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my sense put in order.” — John Burroughs

3. “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

4. “I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the Earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” — Harun Yahya

5. “The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule.” — Giorgio Agamben

6. “And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.” — John Muir

7. “If you would experience a landscape, you must go alone into it and sit down somewhere quietly and wait for it to come in its own good time to you.” ― Paul Gruchow

8. “Roses are red, mud is brown, the wood are better than any night on the town.” — Earl Dibbles Jr

9. “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

10. “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” — John Muir

11. “You may be a little cold some nights on mountain tops above the timber-line, but you will see the stars, and by and by you can sleep enough in your town bed. or at least in your grave. Keep awake while you may in mountain mansions so rare.” ― John Muir

12. “Is it weird that I’m taking Louis Vuitton camping?” — Jessica Simpson

13. “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

14. “…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

15. “The glories of a mountain campfire are far greater than may be guessed.” — John Muir

16. “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

17. “A perfect day would be to get into the car, drive out to Yosemite and go camping.” — Michael Steger

18. “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 – even if it’s just for a fleeting moment before the rain spoils everything.” ― Pippa Middleton

19. “Very few things in life can be so exhilarating as a cabin in the middle of the forest and loving life effortlessly while enjoying the smell of freshly ground heaven in your hot cup, in front of a fireplace… Sweet Solitude, you have taught me to live with very little. So very little it turned out to be a luxury.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

20. “I might ask you one day to go camping, and if you have the desire to dance.” ― Paige Lewis

21. “Camping is the best school for us in the matters of understanding both the amazing mind and the mysterious soul of nature!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan

22. “When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams there’s nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.” — Tom Waits

23. “Look at the stars. Look how they shine for you.” — Coldplay, “Yellow”

24. “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

25. “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” — Anne Lamott

Camping Quotes That Are So Relatable

1. “Why is it that we don’t worry about a compass until we’re lost in a wilderness of our own making?” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough

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2. “Money can not buy happiness but it can buy a tent and that’s kinda the same thing.” — Unknown

3. “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

4. “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

5. “A bad day camping is still better than a good day working.” — Unknown

6. “Every camping trip is a journey to the self.” — Gary Snyder

7. “I went camping once and it was intense. I woke up and forgot how to use a spoon.” — Mitch Hedberg

8. “You long to go ito nature because nature doesn’t care about you. To be clear, it’s not that nature sees you, accepts you for who you are, and loves you anyway: nature just doesn’t give a shit about you.” ― Diana Helmuth

9. “It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.” — Dave Barry

10. “Light a campfire and everyone’s a storyteller.” — John Geddes

11. “Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy a camper, which is kind of the same thing.” — Unknown

12. “Camping is about re-connecting with our primordial selves. The reason that cooking humble food around a campfire, surrounded by family and friends, feels so good is that for eons that was the definition of life in the tribe. It is woven into our very DNA.” — Unknown

13. “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

14. “Camping is great for when you’re craving a horrible night’s sleep.” — Unknown

15. “My tent doesn’t look like much but, as an estate agent might say, “It is air-conditioned and has exceptional location.” ― Fennel Hudson

16. “Remember, a good marriage is like a campfire. Both grow cold if left unattended.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

17. “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

18. “I have never been camping, and I refuse to go. I require a certain level of comfort, like a bed, a roof, and a toilet that flushes.” — Ellen DeGeneres

19. “The first campfire didn’t exist until something nearly human shambled over and camped near it.” — Buck Tilton

20. “Cooking and eating food outdoors makes it taste infinitely better than the same meal prepared and consumed indoors.” ― Fennel Hudson

21. “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

22. “In a well-ordered universe… camping would take place indoors.” — Morgan Matson

23. “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

24. “Far from the luxuries of home, camp life forces a slower, more thoughtful approach to living. Mornings are savoured. 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

25. “The man who goes afoot, prepared to camp anywhere and in any weather, is the most independent fellow on earth.” — Horace Kephart

Quotes About Nature For Campers

1. “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery. Air, mountains, trees, people. I thought: this is what it is to be happy.” — Sylvia Plath

2. “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” — Alice Walker

3. “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

4. “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

5. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” — Chief Seattle

6. “We can never have enough of nature.” — Henry David Thoreau

7. “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

8. “Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art – a euphemism – tamed wilderness.” ― Dejan Stojanovic

9. “In the wild world, relationship is evolutionary, time is geologic, beauty is intelligent. There we find ourselves under a powerful spell.” ― Janisse Ray

10. “My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.” — Claude Monet

11. “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

12. “The woods are lovely, dark and deep…” — Robert Frost

13. “Nothing truly wild is unclean.” ― John Muir

14. “Wilderness gave us knowledge. Wilderness made us human. We came from here. Perhaps that is why so many of us feel a strong bond to this land; it is the land of our youth.” ― Boyd Norton

15. ”In the woods we return to reason and faith.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

16. “We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the Earth as its other creatures do.” — Barbara Ward

17. “Camping: The art of getting closer to nature while getting farther away from the nearest cold beverage, hot shower, and flush toilet.” — Unknown

18. “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

19. “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

20. “You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That’s the fellowship that they want to be in.” — John Eldredge

21. “I prefer the simple things and I love walking in the countryside, or going camping… but simplicity is hard. It’s easier to over-complicate things.” — Bill Bailey

22. “Camping is a chance to escape the hustle and bustle of everyday life and reconnect with nature.” — Unknown

23. “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

24. “Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It’s very special to me.” — Larry Wilcox

25. “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” — John Muir

Great Camping Quotes To Motivate You

1. “And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” — Shanti

2. “Wilderness is not a luxury but necessity of the human spirit.” — Edward Abbey

3. “The wilderness holds answers to questions we have not yet learned to ask.” — Nancy Wynne Newhall

4. “I like to be outdoors as much as possible.” — Sean McVay

5. “The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.” — Theodore Roosevelt

6. There’s no dream too big for the wilderness. I’d hate to see it tamed and carved up into little fiefdoms.” ― Alice Valdal

7. “I think it is far more important to save one square mile of wilderness, anywhere, by any means, than to produce another book on the subject.” ― Edward Abbey

8. “There’s no wi-fi in the mountains, but you’ll find no better connection.” — Unknown

9. “And in my boyhood, I have wandered oft a week of days in that Country of Silence, and had my food with me, and slept quietly amid the memories; and gone on again, wrapped about with the quiet of the Everlasting.” ― William Hope Hodgson

10. “Camping in the tropical Hawaiian jungle brought on the best health I had seen in years!” ― Steven Magee

11. “Wherever you camp in the world, the campfire will be one of the things that sticks in your memory the most!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan

12. “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

13. “The mountains are calling and I must go.” — John Muir

14. “What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.” — René Daumal

15. “You need to be outdoors. Away from here. You need a holiday.” ― Fennel Hudson

16. “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

17. “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

18. “As time passed I started to enjoy the campsite and it was clear that after decades of illness, I was actually seeing improved health! I was spending most days outside and sleeping outdoors in the tent. I had never done this before for such a prolonged time!” ― Steven Magee

19. “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 and perhaps some early-rising[240] native is gliding in his birch canoe; 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

20. “The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.” — Joseph Wood Krutch

21. “The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.” — Terence McKenna

22. “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

23. “I have this dream of what I ultimately want my life to be like, and it involves a lot of quaint activities like cooking and canoeing and camping and hiking.” — Hannah Kearney

24. “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

25. “Once all the power goes out, there will still be human beings standing together around a campfire, playing acoustic guitars.” — Jim James

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