Dan White > Quotes

“Nature is freedom and sunshine. Nature is also bears, yellow jackets, rockfall and vertical exposure. Nature wins.”
― Dan White, Under the Stars: How America Fell in Love with Camping

“Days and nights among the trees is not time off the books. It is not a subtraction from the days of life but an addition to them.”
― Dan White, Under the Stars: How America Fell in Love with Camping

“I love camping. I hate camping. I can't seem to stop. In case you haven't noticed, campouts hardly ever go the way you want them to go. It doesn't matter if you're glamping or backpacking, on a guided exploration or alone. Chaos finds a way.”
― Dan White, Under the Stars: How America Fell in Love with Camping

“Your normal state is hypervigilance. That's your baseline. What is not familiar to you is any kind of respite. If you catch yourself relaxing even for one moment, you always try to find some way to fuck it up.”
― Dan White, Under the Stars: How America Fell in Love with Camping

“Though it tastes like 'some more', one is really enough (about the s'more)”
― Dan White, Under the Stars: How America Fell in Love with Camping

“A bulletin board advertised family-friendly amusements for RV park dwellers, including "corn-hole", which surprised and alarmed me until I took out my smartphone and found out it was only a beanbag game.”
― Dan White, Under the Stars: How America Fell in Love with Camping