71 Best Short Camping Quotes to Inspire Your Next Adventure!

Camping is all about escaping into nature and stepping away from everyday comforts.

We’ve scoured the internet to bring you the best camping quotes, including funny camping sayings, because let’s be honest, camping can lead to some pretty ridiculous moments.

Whether in an RV, van, tent, or deep in the wilderness, you’ll find the perfect camper quote here.

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Short Camping Quotes

“We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Do not collaborate with someone you would not go camping with.” – Dan Poynter
“I went camping for 33 days, and now everybody seems to care.” – Colleen Haskell
“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
“Camping is nature’s way of promoting the motel business.” – Dave Barry
“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
“A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.” – Raymond Duncan
“My camping days are over, but I might consider glamping.” – Christine Feehan
“It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.” – Dave Barry
“The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter.” – Henry David Thoreau
“And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” – Shanti
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” – Anne Lamott
“Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire.” – Stephen King
“Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.” – Charles Lindbergh
“You may be a little cold some nights on mountain tops above the timber-line, but you will see the stars.” – John Muir
“The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Going to the mountains is going home.” – John Muir
“You need to be outdoors. Away from here. You need a holiday.” – Fennel Hudson
“The outside is the only place we can truly be inside the world.” – Daniel J. Rice
“When homeless people go camping, how do they know?” – Dana Gould
“She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies.” – Mavis Gallant
“A perfect day would be to get into the car, drive out to Yosemite and go camping.” – Michael Steger
“The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition.” – 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
“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
“The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband’s family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp.” – Sarah Wayne Callies
“Canoe plus waterfall equals I don’t go camping anymore.” – Demetri Martin
“I go camping with my boyfriend having nothing other than ourselves and the birds to talk with is most relaxing.” – Jamie Luner
“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
“I grew up camping with my family. We took so many trips. We had an RV, actually, when we were growing up. We did a ton of camping trips and went across the country.” – Kirsten Lepore
“The glories of a mountain campfire are far greater than may be guessed…. One can make a day of any size, and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.” – John Muir
“If you’re not in New York, you’re camping out.” – Thomas E. Dewey
“Light a campfire and everyone’s a storyteller.” – John Geddes
“A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars.” – Alan S. Kesselheim
“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
“The stars were better company anyway. They were very beautiful, and they almost never snored.” – David Eddings
“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.” – Edward Abbey
“The echoes of beauty you’ve seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.” – Ernest Hemingway
“The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule.” – Giorgio Agamben
“The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter.” – Henry David Thoreau
“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my sense put in order.” – John Burroughs
“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
“In a well-ordered universe camping would take place indoors.” – Morgan Matson
“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
“Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy a camper, which is kind of the same thing.” – Unknown
“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
“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
“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 crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.” – Edward Abbey
“My fear of camping: I’m convinced bugs will crawl up my vagina and lay eggs. Isn’t everyone?” – Kathy Griffin
“Campgrounds are never comfortable. They are merely less awful than other options.” – Thomm Quackenbush