100 Best Camping Quotes & Camping Sayings For Outdoor Nights

This collection of the best camping quotes appeals to the adventurer in all of us. Perfect for those who dream of spending a night under the stars!

Camping is the best way to enjoy the Great Outdoors

There's many reasons I love camping when I travel.

Some are to do with the idealised romance of camping, such as sleeping out under the stars, and being alone in nature.

Others are to do with camping being a cheap way to travel.

It's helped me travel the world on a bicycle for $10 a day or less, explore remote parts of far off countries, and enjoy indescribable views in the mountains.

In fact, I calculated I have spent nearly 4 years of my life living in tents during my different trips around the world.

And I'd never swap those experiences for so-called 5 star luxury.

Who would want to, when you can stay in open air million star accommodation for free when wild camping?

Best Quotes About Camping

Here's my selection of the best camping related quotes and sayings. I've paired each one with a beautiful photo form maximum travel inspiration.

Hope to see you in the Great Outdoors soon!

“Life Is Best When You’re Camping”

“Life is better by the camp fire”

“Campers have smore fun”

“I googled my symptoms… turned out I just need to go camping”

“Camping – because therapy is expensive.”

“I Don’t Need Therapy, I Just Need To Go Camping”

“Home Is Where You Park It”

“I Love Camping. Life Is Good In The Woods”

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“Wander Often, Wonder Always”

Cooking and eating food outdoors makes it taste infinitely better than the same meal prepared and consumed indoors.

― Fennel Hudson

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More Great Camping Quotes

Here's our next selection of slogans and quotes about camping life, the outdoors, and embracing nature.

“Adventure Is Calling”

“Be Wild, Live Free”

“Another Day In Paradise”

“Just Another Coffee Drinker With A Camping Problem”

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“Camping rules. Stare at the fire. Listen to the birds. Jump in the lake. Read. Take a nap. Relax. Watch the sunset. Cook over the fire. Breathe the fresh air.”

“Live Love Laugh Camp”

“Camping Hair Don’t Care”

“This Is My Happy Place”

“Camp, Hike, Cook, Drink, Eat, Repeat”

“Keep Calm And Camp On”

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity

― John Muir

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Inspiring and Funny Camping Quotes

Because time spent camping isn't time spent – it's time invested!

“What Happens In The Camper Stays In The Camper”

Some national parks have long waitlists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.”

– George Carlin

“A Bonfire Is Basically Just A Nightclub In The Mountains”

“Be Brave Run Free And Stay Wild”

“Welcome To Our Campsite Where Friends And Marshmallows Get Toasted At The Same Time”

“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.”

“I Do Have A Retirement Plan … I Plan On Camping”

“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.”

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

“Going into the wood is going home.”

“Leave the road, take the trails.”

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

― John Muir

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Camping and Outdoors Quotes

Here's our next section of wilderness quotes and outdoor inspiration.

“I am most alive among the tall trees.”

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

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

“We can never have enough of nature.”

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

“The wilderness holds answers to questions we have not yet learned to ask.”

“Roses are red, mud is brown, the wood are better than any night on the town.”

“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.”

“Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.”

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

Without the intense touch of nature, you can never fully freshen yourself! Go for a camping and there both your weary mind and your exhausted body will rise like a morning sun!

― Mehmet Murat ildan

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Quotes About Nature and Camping

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I like to be outdoors as much as possible.”

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

“Cold air dark night warm fire bright stars.”

“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.”

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep…”

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

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

“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

“Remember, a good marriage is like a campfire. Both grow cold if left unattended.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Camping Captions

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“Look at the stars. Look how they shine for you.” — Coldplay, “Yellow”
“The mountains are calling, and I must go.” — John Muir
“And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.” — Louis Armstrong, “What A Wonderful World”
“It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.” – Dave Barry
“If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.” ― Bill Watterson

Camping Sayings

“Life is better around the campfire.”
“Camping: Where you spend a small fortune to live like a homeless person.”
“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
“Leave the road, take the trails.”
“Camping is the answer. Who cares what the question is?”
“The best things in life are the people we love, the places we've been, and the memories we've made along the way.”
“Campers: Where friends and marshmallows get toasted at the same time.”
“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
“Camping: where you can get a good night's sleep in the great outdoors.”
“Life is a journey. Make the most of it by camping along the way.”

Quotes on Camping

The glories of a mountain campfire are far greater than may be guessed.

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

Wilderness is not a luxury but necessity of the human spirit.

There’s nothing better than a camping trip.

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.

Camp life is the best life.

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

Camping Quotes Collection

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– Dave Briggs
Dave is a travel writer and adventurer from the UK, currently living in Greece. Passionate about outdoor adventure and bike touring in particular, he has cycled from Alaska to Argentina, England to Cape Town, and Greece to England. When he's not riding a bike, he's creating adventure travel guides to encourage people to see more of this beautiful world around us.
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