Quotes About Camping

The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition.  ~ 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


Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.  ~ Dave Barry


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


The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness.  ~ Henry David Thoreau


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


Jews don't go camping. Life is hard enough as it is.  ~ Carol Siskind


Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared.  ~ Jack Handey


Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.  ~ Garrison Keillor


I have always loved camping, ever since I was eight, and was forcibly stuffed in a trunk and dropped off in the middle of the forest. My dad was a complex man, but I believe he was trying to show me the value of camping.  ~ Jarod Kintz


We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.  ~ Henry David Thoreau


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


If you're not in New York, you're camping out.  ~ Thomas E. Dewey


A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.  ~ Raymond Duncan


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