Kids and (more often) the adult’s favorite activity in summer is camping. Whether it’s “campfires and horror stories,” camping with the scout troop, or learning how to become an astronaut at space camp, kids are just looking forward to making unforgettable summer memories.
Here are 50 summer camp quotes and quotes camping you can use for branding and your Instagram caption.
“The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule.” – Giorgio Agamben
“Sleep under a blanket of stars, and your heart will forever be kept warm by your love of life.”
“We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness.” – Susan Sontag
“In a well-ordered universe… camping would take place indoors.” – Morgan Matson
“The stars were better company anyway. They were very beautiful, and they almost never snored.” – David Eddings
“Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing every year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared.” Jack Handey
“A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars.” Alan S. Kesselheim
“A bad day camping is still better than a good day working.” Unknown
“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
“It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.” – Dave Barry
“Away is a place where it’s not about the money you spend. It’s about the moments you share.” Unknown
“All camps are hard, that’s what they’re intended to be. They make you focus when you’re tired, when you don’t feel like doing things, and to see how long you can retain and pay attention.” – Michael Strahan
“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 sunsets on the horizon – even if it’s just for a fleeting moment before the rain spoils everything.” – Pippa Middleton
“a day at camp like a week at home.” Allison Duckloe
“There are no prettier stars than the stars you see at camp.” Taylor Sopron
“I went to camp expecting to make friends but I ended up with family.” Viola Gutierrez
“I see something that remind me of camp and I walk around with a huge smile.” Renee
“Summer camp is about growth and accomplishment not just to keep the kids busy.” Anonymous
“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.”
“A Bonfire Is Basically Just A Nightclub in The Mountains”
“Welcome to Our Campsite Where Friends and Marshmallows Get Toasted At The Same Time”
“The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.” Theodore Roosevelt
“We can never have enough of nature.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Life Is Best When You’re Camping”
“I googled my symptoms… turned out I just need to go camping”
“Camping – because therapy is expensive.”
“Live Love Laugh Camp”
“Be Brave Run Free And Stay Wild”
“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
“Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.” Charles Lindbergh
“My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.” Claude Monet
“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.” Terry Tempest Williams
“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.” Walt Whitman
“I like to be outdoors as much as possible.” Sean McVay
“If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.” Bill Watterson
“If you can’t be in awe of Mother Nature, there’s something wrong with you.” Alex Trebek
“Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.” Steve Maraboli
“Not just beautiful, though—the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me.” Haruki Murakami
“The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator.” Edmund Gibbon
“If you are going to do something, do it now. Tomorrow is too late.” Pete Goss
“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” Amelia Earhart
“The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.’’ Casey Neistat
“How wild it was, to let it be.” Cheryl Strayed
“Don’t ask for security, ask for adventure.”
“Go where you feel most alive.”
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” Jawaharlal Nehru
“Take every chance you get in life, because some things only happen once.” Karen Gibbs
“I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.” Carew Papritz