If gazing at the star-filled sky in the midst of wilderness or having a great time by the campfire, is your definition of sheer bliss, then the one thing you need to do right away is - pack your bags and head outdoors.
Light a campfire and everyone's a storyteller.
– John Geddes
Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.
–Dave Barry
We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.
– Henry David Thoreau
It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.
– Dave Barry
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
I don’t need a therapist. I go camping often.
Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness.
– Susan Sontag
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
The stars were better company anyway. They were very beautiful, and they almost never snored.
–David Eddings
The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule.
– Giorgio Agamben
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery. Air, mountains, tree, people. I thought: this is what it is to be happy.
– Sylvia Plath
Sleep under a blanket of stars, and your heart will forever be kept warm by your love of life.