You commonly make your camp just at sundown… You have no time to explore or look around you before it is dark. You may penetrate half a dozen rods farther into that twilight wilderness, after some dry bark to kindle your fire with, and wonder what mysteries lie hidden still deeper in it, say at […]
Camp Quotes
But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes a very centre of civilization to you: “Home is home, be it never so homely.”
The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness.
We could not well camp higher, for want of fuel; and the trees here seemed so evergreen and sappy, that we almost doubted if they would acknowledge the influence of fire; but fire prevailed at last, and blazed here, too, like a good citizen of the world.
When we sing Waltzing Matilda we will think of Slim around the campfire, outside the caravan that brought country music over gravel and dirt roads to all bush Australians.
Portable ready-made food plays of necessity a great part in the opening of a new country. These picnic pots and cans were the first of her trophies that Civilization dropped upon Wyoming’s virgin soil. The cowboy is now gone to worlds invisible; the wind has blown away the white ashes of his campfires; but the […]
How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?
I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp; I know what I ought to do, but I don t know where to begin.
A hundred men can make an encampment, but it requires a woman to make a home.
Men consort in camp and town, But the poet dwells alone.
