We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.
- Henry David Thoreau
Camping Quotes and Sayings
Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style-but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.
- Susan Sontag
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
- Garrison Keillor
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
- Sir Walter Scott
The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue
- Mao Tse-Tung
When an opponent declares, “I will not come over to your side,” I calmly say, “Your child belongs to us already… What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.
- Adolf Hitler
How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make – leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone – we all dwell in a house of one room – the world with the firmament for its roof – and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track.
- John Muir
God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won’t even whore. They’re all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they’re all camp followers.
- Ernest Hemingway
And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them: / And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.
- Bible
I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have.
- Lou Henry Hoover
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
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: The art of getting closer to nature while getting farther away from the nearest cold beverage, hot shower and flush toilet.
- Author Unknown
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