50 Best Camping Quotes & Captions For Nature Seekers
/Why explore the world when you can camp right at your backyard? This was the very reason why I started camping — and it was enough reason for me to appreciate the outdoors and start an outdoor lifestyle.
It changed my perspective of experiencing nature and wondering where else I can set up camp in the world.
The ability to rewild your senses, wake up to views that puts a shame to any 5 star resorts are good enough reasons to get out there and camp.
Afterall, life under the stars has been seriously upgraded!
This new adventure spirit of camping has also exploded on the internet where people find ways to taste the fresh air, the trees, reel in that escapism and just spend quality time by the campfire and zone out for a bit.
Here are some of the best camping quotes and captions that I absolutely relied on when I needed that little boost for me to keep going outside:
50 Best Camping Quotes & Captions For Nature-Seekers
"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being bewildered for several weeks." - Daniel Boone
"All good things are wild and free." -Thoreau
"I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the Earth. Then I ask myself the same question." - Harun Yahya
“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.” - Anonymous
“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few are dirt” -John Muir
“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.” - Edward Abbey
“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.” - Edward Abbey
“In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.” - John Muir
“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.” - John Muir
“Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time.” - Katrina Mayer
“Money can not buy happiness but it can buy a tent and that’s kinda the same thing.” - Anonymous
“When you get a little dirt in your food while camping, it’s called ‘trail seasoning’.” - Anonymous
"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 woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.” - Robert Frost
"What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know." — René Daumal.
“Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business. ”
― Dave Barry
“Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing. I suppose some will wish to debate whether it is important to keep these primitive arts alive. I shall not debate it. Either you know it in your bones, or you are very, very old.”
― Aldo Leopold
Far from the luxuries of home, camp life forces a slower, more thoughtful approach to living. Mornings are savoured. 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
“Very few things in life can be so exhilarating as a cabin in the middle of the forest and loving life effortlessly while enjoying the smell of freshly ground heaven in your hot cup, in front of a fireplace... Sweet Solitude, you have taught me to live with very little. So very little it turned out to be a luxury.”
― Efrat Cybulkiewicz
“When we would go camping in rural Wales, we would get sick. What I did not realize at the time was the sickness was a detoxification reaction from the toxic city environment that we normally lived in.”
― Steven Magee
“Wherever you camp in the world, the campfire will be one of the things that sticks in your memory the most!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan
“A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars.”
― Alan S. Kesselheim
“The stars were better company anyway. They were very beautiful, and they almost never snored.”
― David Eddings
“Cooking and eating food outdoors makes it taste infinitely better than the same meal prepared and consumed indoors.”
― Fennel Hudson
"The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule." - Giorgio Agamben
"There's no wi-fi in the mountains, but you'll find no better connection." - Anonymous
"In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.” - Alice Walker
"If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently." - Bill Watterson
"Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization." - Charles Lindbergh
"Roses are red, mud is brown, the wood are better than any night on the town." - Earl Dibbles Jr
"The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom." - Theodore Roosevelt
"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
“And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” — Shanti
“Camping – because therapy is expensive.” - Anonymous
“Remember, a good marriage is like a campfire. Both grow cold if left unattended.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” – Henry David Thoreau
“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.” — Lorraine Anderson
“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.” — Victoria Erickson
“Wilderness is not a luxury but necessity of the human spirit.” — Edward Abbey
“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
“Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.”
― Dejan Stojanovic
“Wilderness gave us knowledge. Wilderness made us human. We came from here. Perhaps that is why so many of us feel a strong bond to this land; it is the land of our youth.”
― Boyd Norton
“Why is it that we don’t worry about a compass until we’re lost in a wilderness of our own making?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
There's no dream too big for the wilderness. I'd hate to see it tamed and carved up into little fiefdoms.”
― Alice Valdal
“Nothing truly wild is unclean.”
― John Muir
“A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.” ― Edward Abbey
“I think it is far more important to save one square mile of wilderness, anywhere, by any means, than to produce another book on the subject.” ― Edward Abbey
“If you would experience a landscape, you must go alone into it and sit down somewhere quietly and wait for it to come in its own good time to you.”
― Paul Gruchow
“Any meal is a good meal when you're on a good river.”
― Edward Abbey
“In the wild world, relationship is evolutionary, time is geologic, beauty is intelligent. There we find ourselves under a powerful spell.” ― Janisse Ray
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