50 Campfire Quotes – Quotes About Campfire and Camping

Campfire Quotes – Quotes About Campfire and Camping

What could be better than a day filled with exploring the woods, an evening of good conversation, music, and horror stories surrounded by friends, family, or partner around a campfire, and a night of sleeping under a billion stars? After that, do you need captions for the photos you took while camping? Say no more. Here are the 50 Campfire Quotes you can use to spice up and add more meaning to those photos.

As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone – to connect with one another. For millions of years our forebears must have sat around the campfire, whispering about everyone they knew. Helen Fisher

Having a campfire and roasted marshmallows, to me that sounds like Heaven. Randy Orton

Once all the power goes out, there will still be human beings standing together around a campfire, playing acoustic guitars. Jim James

I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm. Gavin DeGraw

“The fire is the main comfort of camp, whether in summer or winter.” Henry David Thoreau

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

The echoes of beauty you’ve seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire. – Ernest Hemingway

Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night? – Rudyard Kipling

when your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams there’s nothing like a campfire and a can of beans. Tom Waits

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. Garrison Keillor

It’s easier to throw sticks on the campfire than to try to restart it when it goes out. Cynthia Lewis

The tools of social networking: These are the digital campfires around which the audience gathers to hear our story. Marco Tempest

In the heat of her hands I thought, this is the campfire that mocks the sun. Jeanette Winterson

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

“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 onlookers watched as the fire snapped and popped, observing the flames encircle the logs. Bits of blue and green intertwined with the blazing orange and yellow. The smoke rose high above the campfire, lifting glowing embers. Ann White Lombardi

Young people knew what had happened to the world because their elders communicated it to them around the campfire. Rick Steber

You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That’s the fellowship that they want to be in. John Eldredge

Light a campfire and everyone’s a storyteller. John Geddes

We’re never alone. As soon as we step outside the campfire glow, our Muse lights on our shoulder like a butterfly. The act of courage calls for infallibly that deeper part of ourselves that supports and sustains us. Steven Pressfield

“Running around a bonfire is the perfect way to spend a summer night.””

She lit a fire, but now she’s in my every thought.” — Lord Huron

We dare not talk of the darkness for fear it will infect us. We dare not talk of the fire, for fear it will destroy us. And we live in the half-light, Like our mothers before us. Come to the fire, feel it warm your skin. Come to the fire, feel it burn in your belly, Shine out through your eyes. Come dance in the fire, let it fuel your prayers. Lucy H. Pearce

Your practice should be strengthened by the difficult situations you encounter, just as a bonfire in a strong wind is not blown out, but blazes even brighter. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Gather wood, build a fire, stay up all night with the fire and stars. / Have a little blackberry brandy as you telescope to bring the stars closer in. / The sound of the fire, the smell of the fire, / The light and heat of the fire will help you, heal you. / A campfire’s Paleolithic experience we can all still have. Antler

The campfire is the most important part of camping. It’s far more than just a source of heat or light. It’s the heart of civilization. All other activities revolve around the fire. David Lubar

No special effect can ever come close to the power and impact of human imagination. A story, told or read around a campfire, will keep alive our time-honored traditions of oral history. Rick Steber

The first campfire didn’t exist until something nearly human shambled over and camped near it. Buck Tilton

Build a campfire only when environmental conditions allow it. The danger of wildfire must be low, and you can find out if it is by checking land management agencies. Buck Tilton

Before men ever dreamed of shelter, campfires were their homes. Here they gathered and made their first plans for communal living, for tribal hunts and raids. Here for centuries they dreamed vague dreams and became slowly aware of the first faint glimmerings and nebulous urges that eventually were to widen the gulf between them and the primitive darkness from which they sprang. Sigurd Olson

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

“The best wilderness campfire builders ‘leave no trace.” Melody A. Carlson

“Dying embers of a campfire, / Mostly smoking, choking out the last bit of orange / Heat as the moon makes a final exit from the sky / He flies into a reborn sun.” Mario William Vitale

“Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves.” Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

“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

“Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.” Laurie Anderson

“The whole campfire idea freaked Piper out. It made her think of that huge purple bonfire in the dreams, and her father tied to a stake. What she got instead was almost as terrifying: a sing-along.” Rick Riordan

“There’s no wi-fi in the mountains, but you’ll find no better connection.”

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep…” Robert Frost

“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.” John Lubbock

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

“I am most alive among the tall trees and around a campfire.”

“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

“I am always mesmerized by the dancing flames and whispered songs of a campfire.” Katherine G.H.E

“Cold air, dark night, warm fire and bright stars.” Anonymous

“Good friends around a campfire is my idea of a great night out.” Anonymous

“Cease reaching for those far off stars, create instead your own campfire.” Diwa

“A tree is just a campfire, waiting to happen.” Jeri Shafer

“Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire.” Stephen King

“Winter is leaving, no more icy night, bonfire should take a break.” Season