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Quotes About Camping

They camped that night on the foreplain at the foot of a talus slope and the murder that had been reckoned upon took place.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Alone far in the wilds and mountains I hunt, Wandering amazed at my own lightness and glee, In the late afternoon choosing a safe spot to pass the night, Kindling a fire and broiling the freshkilled game, Soundly falling asleep on the gathered leaves, my dog and gun by my side.
~ Walt Whitman
Our camp-kettle, filled from the brook, hummed doubtfully for a while, then busily bubbled under the sidelong glare of the flames—cups clinked and rattled—the fragrant steam ascended; and soon this little circlet in the wilderness grew warm and genial as my lady's drawing-room.
~ Alexander William Kinglake
You can't camp about something you don't take seriously. You're not making fun of it. You're making fun out of it.
~ Harvey Fierstein
For a while, I tried to masquerade as somewhat of a hippie because I was under the impression that was the kind of guy girls would like. I was pretty unsuccessful because I liked the idea of camping more than actually camping. I did go to a Grateful Dead concert, but I was pretty bored.
~ Paul Rudd
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
I love camping, everything about it - tents, the camping stove, sleeping bags. I'm obsessed with technology, be it synthesizers and speakers or tents and Gore-Tex.
~ Shura
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 weather was atrocious. A frightful storm burst upon us. We camped literally in water...To cap our woe, there was no means to light a single fire. We had to imagine dinner.
~ Leonce Patry
It's harder and harder to find a spot within a day's drive of Los Angeles with enough vacant grass or even sand or dirt to stake a tent on.
~ Ken Berry
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
Many families are planning summer vacations and in Canada, camping is a very popular way to spend those long summer nights!
~ Hilary Farr
As my men could profitably employ themselves on these streams, I moved slowly along, averaging not more than five or six miles per day and sometimes remained two days at the same encampment.
~ William Henry Ashley
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
Toivokaamme hänelle hyvää teltanpaikkaa ja kevyttä sydäntä!
~ Tove Jansson
Towards dawn, as we were making camp, Vancha suddenly burst out laughing. Look at us! he hooted, as we stared at him uncertainly. We've been moping all night like four sad souls at a funeral. What idiots we've been! You think it amusing to have a death sentence imposed on us, Sire? Mr. Crepsley asked archly. Charna's guts! Vancha cursed. The sentence has been there since the start — all that's changed is that we know about it! A little knowledge is a... dangerous thing, Harkat muttered.
~ Darren Shan
It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.
~ Dave Barry
I drive a VW California. It's a camper van based on the transporter body. It drives like a car, but you press a button and you're camping. I take it on tour with me.
~ Sean Lock
I'm made of dead stars, I eat a lot of fruits, and I hate peak period travel, as opposed to my character on 'The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,' who is made of jello, eats vegan, and loves camping.
~ Ronny Chieng
And then, maybe oddest of all, she leaned back slightly from our embrace and said, "You didn't forget that this weekend is the big summer camping trip? With Cody and the Cub Scouts?" I hadn't actually forgotten—but I also hadn't remembered it in the context of playing out a dramatic scene of domestic anguish, and I had to pause for just a second to catch up with her. "No," I said at last. "I didn't forget.
~ Jeff Lindsay
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
Sherlock Holmes and his trusty associate Watson were on a camping trip. They had gone to bed and were lying there looking up at the sky. Holmes said, "Watson, look up and tell me what you see." "Well, I see thousands of stars," he replied. "And what does that tell you?" asked Holmes. "I guess it means we're going to have another nice day tomorrow. What does it mean to you?" "To me, it means that someone has stolen our tent.
~ Unknown
Growing up, it was about finding a way to entertain myself outdoors. We spent all the summers on the beach, camping with my family a bunch, and traveling as much as we could. My parents wouldn't let me watch too much TV growing up or play video games, or anything like that.
~ Stephen Colletti
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.
~ James Montgomery