Quote by Bruce Bairnsfather

“Trying to define Camp is like attempting to sit in the corner of a circular room. It can’t be done, which only adds to…

— Charles Hatfield

“Let’s get to our site,” Anne said. “I’m gonna need a nap before the hunt…and lunch.” “Do you wish you would’ve gotten that rental…

— Robin Alexander

To camp is a mode of seduction... Behind the 'straight' public sense in which something can be taken, one has found a private zany…

— Susan Sontag

“Often when I have camped here, it has made me want to become the ground, become the water, become the trees, mix with the…

— Owen Wister

“(At an intersection on the main road from Nyon to Geneva, for instance, there is a neat villa, window-boxes and all, that reveals itself…

— Ian Fleming

“Tents are boasters, telling exaggerated tales of the weather they save you from.”

— Mark Lawrence

“It seemed funny that in the wild we had millions of acres to pitch a tent, but when we reached town there was no…

— Keith Foskett

“Universal military service may be compared to the efforts of a man to prop up his falling house who so surrounds it and fills…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Your stay in the camp was merely an allegory, if you know that word. It was an allegory--speaking at the highest level--of how scandalously,…

— J.M. Coetzee

“• • • Military history is the story of the terrible murder of beautiful plans by ugly facts.”

— Gregory Benford

“There is nothing particularly glorious about sweaty fellows, laden with killing tools, going along to fight. And yet-such a column represents a great deal…

— John Thomason

“I have a sudden urge to pitch a tent in the back yard tonight.”

— Marie Sexton