Month: July 2020

Looking for some beautiful sunset captions for Instagram?

As a lover of reading and a longtime poet, I love gathering beautiful quotes about meaningful things, and sunsets of course are one of those!

I’ve gathered all sorts of quotes about sunsets: sunset Instagram captions, puns about sunsets, inspiring sunset quotes. These make perfect short captions, romantic captions about sunsets, and sunset quotes perfect for social media.

Here are my favorite simple captions about sunsets for Instagram and plenty of beautiful and inspiring quotes about sunsets as well.

Simple Sunset Captions for Instagram

Sunsets are a girl’s best friend

I have one rule: catch sunset every day.

There’s no sight better than a sunset.

The sunset is your reward for making it through the day.

We all see the same sunset.

Seek every sunset.

 My favorite color is sunset.

Cherish every sunset.

There’s no sight more beautiful than a sunset.

When someone asks me what my favorite color is, I should just say sunset.

You’ll never regret a sunset.

Time spent watching the sunset is never wasted.

Born to chase the sunset.

The sunset always delivers.

Wine and sunsets.

If the sun never set, we’d never have the gift of a new day.

Sunsets are a promise of a new tomorrow.

The opening song of the night is sunset.

No filters needed for this sunset!

I never met a sunset I didn’t like.

I dream in the colors of the sunset.

Even the sun sets in paradise.

The only kind of sunsets that I don’t like are the ones that I missed.

Sunsets are like God’s paintings in the sky.

Punny & Funny Sunset Captions for Instagram

Sunsets and chill.

Sunset-ational!

Ain’t no sunsets when she’s gone…

Sunsets and sol-mates.

Here comes the sun(set)

Watching the sunset is illuminating.

Sun(set)’s out, puns out!

What UV is what you get

Blondes have more sun

Watching the sunset is a light of passage

This sunset really raysed the bar

Here comes the sunset

Keep palm and sunset on.

Game, sunset, match

Give me your best sunset puns: ready, sunset, go!

Sun’s going down!

This sunset is wild; it’s like all helios broke loose

Go with the glow

I watch the sun set in glow motion

Girls just wanna have sunset!

I thought watching a sunset would help clear my head, but it left me more in the dark.

For crying out cloud, this sunset is beautiful!

The sunset is beautiful as far as the sky can see.

When the skies turn pink, it’s time for a drink!

Punset, sunset!

I was trying to think of a sunset pun, but it just hasn’t dawned on me yet

Life’s a beach, but sunsets make it better.

Fifty shades of pink.

Orange you glad we stayed up to see the sun set?

I tried to see the sunset but I had dusk in my eyes

Good night and good dusk!

New things are on the horizon…

Inspirational & Short Sunset Captions

The sun is alone but it still shines.

Watch sunsets, not Netflix.

A sunset should never go unnoticed.

Sunsets are my happy place.

We all see the same sunset.

Sunsets are the most beautiful form of meditation.

The best things in life are free: sunsets included.

Sunsets are all the more beautiful because they’re fleeting.

Sunsets are one thing in life that won’t wait.

There are too many things I haven’t done yet. There are too many sunsets I haven’t seen.

Paradise is anywhere the sky looks pretty.

Sunsets are like little peeks into heaven.

Paradise found.

 Seeing a sunset and not dreaming is almost impossible.

 Every sunset is an opportunity to start your life again

Romantic Sunset Captions

All you need is love… and sunsets

The most beautiful sunsets are the ones we share.

You add bright colors to my sunset sky.

Your smile is like a sunset.

Sunset state of mind.

I want to spend the rest of my sunsets with you.

Starry eyes and candy-colored skies.

Sunsets are prettier whenever I’m with you.

Sunsets and my soulmate.

Live by the sun. Love by the moon.

Let’s ride off into the sunset.

I love you to the horizon and back.

We are seekers of everyday magic.

Every moment with you is a sunset.

Romantic Sunset Quotes Perfect for Couple Sunset Captions

“The most beautiful sunset is when you have it with your beloved one and the most beautiful sunrise is quite the same.”― Galina Nelson

“The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color — oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples.” – Anna Godbersen

“Whenever you want to see me, always look at the sunset; I will be there.” — Grace Ogot

“I want to see how sunset decorates your hair.” — Tyler Knott Gregson

“All I ever wanted was to dream another sunset with you.” — Mayday Parade

“We can always be chasing the sun.” — Sara Bareilles

“Sunsets are not a rare commodity, they come and go every night, so I compare you not to a sunset, for you come once in a life.” — Daniel Cook

“I know I should crumble for better reasons but have you seen that boy he brings the sun to its knees every night.” – Rupi Kaur

“That was her magic – she could still see the sunset, even on the darkest days.” – Atticus

“I just need you and some sunsets.” — Atticus

“A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.” — Mary Balogh

“I like people who get excited about the change of seasons, the sound of the ocean, watching a sunset, the smell of rain, and starry nights.” — Brooke Hampton

“The most beautiful sunset is when you have it with your beloved one and the most beautiful sunrise is quite the same.” — Galina Nelson

“If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.” – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

“Meet me where the sky touches the sea.” — Jennifer Donnelly

“Watching them was like watching the sunset and the sunrise, equally beautiful in different ways.” — Shannon A. Thompson

Short Sunset Quotes that Make Great Sunset Instagram Captions

“We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea.” – Desmond Tutu

“It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.” — Bern Williams

“Her heart was made of liquid sunsets.” – Virginia Woolf

“The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color — oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples…” – Anna Godbersen

“A sunset is the sun’s fiery kiss to the night” — Crystal Woods

““There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.” – Jo Walton

“Softly the evening came with the sunset.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“A sunset paints the sky as if there were no tomorrow.” — Anthony T. Hincks

“Enjoy the beauty of a sunset and enjoy nature’s farewell kiss for the night” – Sharon Rene

“Age is irrelevant. Ask me how many sunsets I’ve seen, hearts I’ve loved, trips I’ve taken, or concerts I’ve been too. That’s how old I am.” — Joëlle

“Sunset is so marvelous that even the sun itself watches it every day in the reflections of the infinite oceans.” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

“When the sun is setting, leave whatever you are doing and watch it.” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Never waste any amount of time doing anything important when there is a sunset outside that you should be sitting under.” — C. Joybell C.

“Sunrise is the start of something beautiful: the day. Sunset is the start of something beautiful: the night.” – Juansen Dizon

“I like that time is marked by each sunrise and sunset whether or not you actually see it.” ― Catherine Opie

“The heart aches at sunset, no matter how beautiful it may be.” – Romain Gary

“There is nothing more musical than a sunset.” — Claude Debussy

“Just don’t forget that some of us watch the sunset too.”― S.E. Hinton

“My joy is the golden sunset giving thanks for another day.” — Jonathan Lockwood

“The more clouds you have in your sky, the more colorful sunset it will be.” ― Sajal Sazzad

“Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset…. It’s the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.” — Sharon Draper

“When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.” — George R. R. Martin

“Never turn your back to the sunset, because you owe the sun a thanking for lighting you all day!” ― Mehmet Murat Ildan

“When I look at a sunset, I don’t find myself saying, Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner.’ I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.” – Carl R. Rogers

“Sometimes the sunset is so beautiful, I think it might be the very last one.”― Nitya Prakash

“The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.” – Pamela Hansford Johnson

“Sunsets are loved because they vanish.” — Ray Bradbury

“Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can’t stand a little silence.”― Carl Hiaasen

“If you are in a beautiful place where you can enjoy sunrise and sunset, then you are living like a lord.” – Nathan Phillips

“One day I would like to paint the perfect sunset. If I can only find the words.” – Atticus

Inspiring Quotes About Sunsets for Instagram Captions

“Don’t forget, beautiful sunsets need cloudy skies” – Paolo Coelho

“Sunsets prove that the ends can often be very beautiful.” – Beau Taplin

“There’s nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.” — Rachel Boston

“The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the color that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.” – Ram Charan

“I find it incredibly amazing how the sky is a different shade at dusk. No cloud is ever in the same place. Each day is a new masterpiece. A new wonder. A new memory.” – Sanober Khan

“Every sunset is also a sunrise; it all depends on where you stand.” – Karl Schmidt

“When your world moves too fast and you lose yourself in the chaos, introduce yourself to each color of the sunset.” — Christy Ann Martine

“May every sunrise hold more promise and every sunset hold more peace.” – Umair Siddiqui

“It was sunsets that taught me that beauty sometimes only lasts for a couple of moments. And it was sunrises that showed me that all it takes is patience to experience it all over again.” – A.J. Lawless

“The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.” — Frank Lane

“Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every sunset is an opportunity to reset.” – Richie Norton

“No sun outlasts its sunset but will rise again and bring the dawn.” — Maya Angelou

“A day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.” – Nicholas Sparks

“Sunsets are proof that no matter what happens, every day can end beautifully.” – Kristen Butler

“Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.” –  Richard Paul Evans

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” ― Rabindranath Tagore

“One day, all your worries will set like the sun does and deserved happiness will come gushing like waves at the beach do. All you need to make sure id that your trips to beach never end.” ― Jasleen Kaur Gumber

“Believe in yourself and you can change a sunset into a new dawn.” ― Anthony T. Hincks

“There’s always a sunrise and always a sunset and it’s up to you to choose to be there for it.” – Cheryl Strayed

“[Sunset] is my favorite time of the day. Light and dark touch for a few moments.” – Regina McBride

Even More Sunset Quotes for Instagram Captions

“To me, everything is beautiful. Show me a pink sunset, and I’m limp, by God.” — J.D. Salinger

“Sometimes you see something unusual at sunset. Later you don’t believe when you see the same in the picture.” – Anton Chekhov

“You want proof there’s a God? Look outside, watch a sunset.” — Frank E. Peretti

“Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.” ― Thomas de Quincey

“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.” — Kahlil Gibran

“The sunsets are mad orange fools raging in the gloom.” – Jack Kerouac

“After the sun sets, there comes a moment when the color and lighting are surprisingly beautiful. It lasts only for a few seconds when the sun has just gone beyond the horizon, but its rays continue to illuminate the earth.” – Robert James Waller

“Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.” — Ryu Murakami

“Let me bathe my soul in colors; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.” — Kahlil Gibran

“Sunrises are rarer for me, but sunset is my favourite time of day.” — Jon Foreman

“Watching the sunset makes you feel stronger.” — Anamika Mishra

“Because the sunset, like survival, exists only on the verge of its own disappearing. To be gorgeous, you must first be seen, but to be seen allows you to be hunted.” — Ocean Vuong

“The sun ignites the clouds below it as if they, and the water, itself, were on fire.” — Anthony T. Hincks

“The sun is new each day.” –Heraclitus

“She remembered watching a summer sunset from this very spot. Not so long ago; just a lifetime.” – Sharon Kay Penman

“Every sunset is a journey, a journey to remember the memories of the past.” — Mehmet Murat Ildan

“You just gotta use the sunset as a reset button and start over in the morning with every chance you get to open your eyes.” — Victoria Monet

“Thank you is what each and every one of us should say when we see either a sunrise or sunset. And when we do that, maybe, just maybe the world will start to become a better place.” — Anthony T. Hincks

“Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are; there cannot be one without the other, yet they cannot exist at the same time.” — Nicholas Sparks

“Your choice between sunrise or sunset depends on your attitude.” — Ibn Jeem

“With every sunset a new hope is born, and an old expectation dies.” — Noor Unnahar

“Paint a picture of the sunset that no one will ever forget.” — Debasish Mridha

“It’s the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti artist.” — Mia Kirshner

“Admire the efforts of a failure like you admire the beauty of a sunset.” — Amit Kalantri

“Bring me the sunset in a cup.” — Emily Dickinson

“All my life, I have been in love with the sky. Even when everything was falling apart around me, the sky was always there for me.” – Yoko Ono

“Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there’s something good about feeling both.” — Amy Grant

“Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.” — Mattie Stepanek

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Allison Green is a former teacher who has been travel blogging since 2016. She has a Masters in Teaching and a B.A. in English and Creative Writing. Her blog posts merge her background as an educator with her experience traveling to 70+ countries to encourage ethical, meaningful travel. She has been a speaker at the World Travel Writers Conference and her writing, photography, and podcasting work has appeared in National Geographic, CNN Arabic, CBC Canada, and Forbes, amongst others. Now a full-time traveler, she has lived in Prague, Sofia, New York City, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Mountains are some of the most beautiful places on earth — and as a result, is it any surprise we’re often at a loss for words for how to describe these wondrous places?

As a lifelong reader and lover of the English language (I majored in it and creative writing back in college, and I still write poetry to this day!) and am amateur mountaineer, I’ve gathered my favorite mountain quotes for you.

Use these quotes about mountains however you like — they make fantastic mountain captions for Instagram, inspiring quotes to write on a vision board or bullet journal,

Best Mountain Quotes

“You are not in the mountains. The mountains are in you.”  

— John Muir

“It is not the mountains we conquer, but ourselves.”

– Sir Edmund Hillary

“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.”

— John Muir

“Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.”

– Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Nothing lives long, Only the earth and mountains.”

– Dee Brown

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.”

– John Muir

“The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.”

― Thomas Wolfe

“Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.”

– William Shakespeare

“Everyone wants to live on the top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.”

— Andy Rooney

Mountain Climbing Quotes

“Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.”

— Bear Grylls

“There’s no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It’s experiencing the climb itself – in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue – that has to be the goal.”

– Karyn Kusama

“The greatest joy in climbing is to be in charge of one’s own destiny.”

— Chris Bonnington

“You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you’ve climbed a mountain.”

— Tom Hiddleston

“When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.”

— Edmund Hillary

“The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters.”

— Conrad Anker

“Climbing is my art; I get so much joy and gratification from it.”

– Jimmy Chin

“And if someday, my sons ask, “Dad, why did you choose to climb?” Smiling, I’ll reply, I climbed so you could fly.”

– Mekael Shane

“How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.”

— Yvon Chouinard

“I don’t want to write about climbing or talk about it or photograph it or think about it; all I want to do is do it.”

— Chuck Pratt

“The mountains have rules. They are harsh rules, but they are there, and if you keep to them you are safe. A mountain is not like men. A mountain is sincere. The weapons to conquer it exist inside you, inside your soul.”

— Walter Bonatti

“The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain; he is inspired by it.”

– William Arthur Ward

“Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.”

― David McCullough Jr.

“Climbing is as close as we can come to flying.”

— Margaret Young

“He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you’re no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn’t just a means to an end but a unique event in itself.”

— Robert M. Pirsig

“There are two kinds of climbers, those who climb because their heart sings when they’re in the mountains, and all the rest.”

— Alex Lowe

“Everybody wants to reach the peak, but there is no growth on the top of a mountain. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life’s next peak.”

— Andy Andrews

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing the lawn. Climb that godd*** mountain.”

– Jack Kerouac

“Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.”

— Greg Child

“When preparing to climb a mountain – pack a light heart.”

— Dan May

“The choices we make lead up to actual experiences. It is one thing to decide to climb a mountain. It is quite another to be on top of it.”

– Herbert Simon

“Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.”

– Bradley Chicho

Mountain View Quotes

“Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.”

— John Ruskin

“No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.”

— Ansel Adams

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.”

– Edward Abbey

“The climb speaks to our character, but the view, I think, to our souls.”

– Lori Lansens

“A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the continuum of landscape, mountains are discontinuity — culminating in high points, natural barriers, unearthly earth.”

― Rebecca Solnit

“The mountains were so wild and so stark and so very beautiful that I wanted to cry.”

— Jane Wilson-Howarth

“I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view.”

– Sebastian Thrun

“Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder’s frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain.”

— Haruki Murakami

“I’m a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that’s me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I’d die; I don’t know what of, I just knew I’d die.”

— John Marsden

“Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.”

– John Muir

“When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.”

– Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Mountaineering Quotes

“Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.”

– Edmund Hillary

“If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.”

– Edmund Hillary

“I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.”

– Edmund Hillary

“Climbing has shown me a courageous, strong side of myself, a beautiful bravery. Other days I’ve seen pitiful weakness. I’ve watched myself crawl, belly-flat, across a mountainous landscape of fear. Climbing has shown me that I am all those things: strong and weak, brave and cowardly, both immune to and at the mercy of the death of death, all at the same time.”

— Steve House

“I think, every time I am on the mountain, I am just so thankful to be there.”

— Chloe Kim

“I had discovered that I am the kind of person who cannot live comfortably, tolerably, on all-flat terrain. For the sake of inner equilibrium there has to be at least one mountain range on at least one of the four quarters of my horizon-and not more than a day’s walk away.”

― Edward Abbey

“The mainstream audience has a certain picture of what climbing is all about: man conquering mountain. But you can’t conquer a mountain, though it may conquer you.”

– Jimmy Chin

“As a professional climber, that’s the question you always get: Why, why, why? It’s an ineffable thing; you can’t describe it.”

– Jimmy Chin

“You never climb the same mountain twice, not even in memory. Memory rebuilds the mountain, changes the weather, retells the jokes, remakes all the moves.”

— Lito Tejada-Flores

“At bottom, mountains, like all wildernesses, challenge our complacent conviction – so easy to lapse into – that the world has been made for humans by humans. Most of us exist for most of the time in worlds which are humanly arranged, themed and controlled. One forgets that there are environments which do not respond to the flick of a switch or the twist of a dial, and which have their own rhythms and orders of existence. Mountains correct this amnesia. By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can possibly envisage, mountains refute our excessive trust in the man-made. They pose profound questions about our durability and the importance of our schemes. They induce, I suppose, a modesty in us.”

― Robert MacFarlane

“Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.”

— Anatoli Boukreev

“Although I deeply love oceans, deserts, and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty.”

– Victoria Erikson

Mountain Top Quotes & Summit Quotes

“Each fresh peak ascended teaches something.”

— Sir Martin Conway

“The way up to the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don’t fool yourself, the moment will arrive when what seemed so near is still very far.”

— Paulo Coelho

“There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains. Lifted high above the level of human sounds and habitations, among the wild expanses and colossal features of Nature, we are thrilled in our loneliness with a strange fear and elation – an ascent above the reach of life’s expectations or companionship, and the tremblings of a wild and undefined misgivings.”

– J. Sheridan Le Fanu

“Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.”

– George Bernard Shaw

“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen.”

– Rene Daumal

“When you stand at the bottom of the mountain and look up at the mountaintop, the path looks hard and stony, and the top is obscured by clouds. But when you reach the top and you look down, you realize that there are a thousand paths that could have brought you to that place.” 

– Roz Savage

“Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.”

– Barry Finlay

“Don’t pay attention to the size of the mountain in front of you. Rather, think about what the view from the summit is going to be like.”

― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.”

— Paul D. Boyer

“To aim for the highest point is not the only way to climb a mountain.”

– Nan Shepherd

“Without mountains, we might find ourselves relieved that we can avoid the pain of the ascent, but we will forever miss the thrill of the summit. And in such a terribly scandalous trade-off, it is the absence of pain that becomes the thief of life.”

– Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.”

— Marianne Williamson

“Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it’s a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.”

– Frank Herbert

“I like being near the top of a mountain, One can’t get lost here.”

– Wislawa Szymborska

“Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves and half in love with oblivion.”

– Robert MacFarlane

“Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”

-– Khalil Gibran

“I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don’t think of anything but the people I care about and the view.”

– Julian Lennon

Short Mountain Quotes

“The mountains are calling, and I must go.”

— John Muir

“The mountains were there and so was I.”

— Maurice Herzog

“I go to seek a great perhaps”

– John Green

“We are in the world where the longing mountains are the most grounded.”

― Sorin Cerin

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”

— William Blake

“The mountains are a demanding, cold place, and they don’t allow for mistakes.”

– Conrad Anker

“No matter how tall the mountain is, it cannot block the sun.”

– Emily Kay McAllister

“The mountain affords perspective.”

― Thomas Lloyd Qualls

“Your faith can move mountains and your doubt can create them.”

– Swami Vivekanand

“How wild it was, to let it be.”

— Cheryl Strayed

“Throw me to the mountains, I’ll be at peace as long as I will live.”

― Shashank Rayal

“May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits.”

– Harley King

“Over every mountain, there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.”

– Theodore Roethke

“Clouds come and go, the mountain remains.”

― Meeta Ahluwalia

“You never climb a mountain on accident – it has to be intentional.”

– Mark Udall

“So this was what a mountain was like, the same as a person: the more you know, the less you fear.”

– Wu Ming-Yi

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”

— Jane Austen

“I learn something every time I go into the mountains.” 

– Michael Kennedy

“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”

– Henry David Thoreau

Inspirational Mountain Life Quotes

“Mountains are only a problem when they are bigger than you. You should develop yourself so much that you become bigger than the mountains you face.”

― Idowu Koyenikan

“When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.”

– Wilma Rudolph

“I like the mountains because they make me feel small… They help me sort out what’s important in life.”

― Mark Obmascik

“Mountains know secrets we need to learn. That it might take time, it might be hard, but if you just hold on long enough, you will find the strength to rise up.”

— Tyler Knott

“In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.”

– Robert Green Ingersoll

“I’m always looking for a new challenge. There are a lot of mountains to climb out there. When I run out of mountains, I’ll build a new one.”

– Sylvester Stallone

“Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like a yon cloud upon the mountain’s summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.”

— John Muir

“The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down. To me, life is going up until you are burned by flames. Life is an accomplishment, and each moment has a meaning and you must use it. Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.”

— Jeanne Moreau

“Choose the mountain you want to climb: don’t pay attention to what other people say, such as ‘that one’s more beautiful’ or ‘this one’s easier’. You’ll be spending lots of energy and enthusiasm to reach your objective, so you’re the only one responsible and you should be sure of what you’re doing.”

–Paulo Coelho

“You’re off to great places, today is your day. Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way.”

— Dr. Seuss

“The greatest gift of life on the mountain is time. Time to think or not think, read or not read, scribble or not scribble—to sleep and cook and walk in the woods, to sit and stare at the shapes of the hills.”

— Phillip Connors

“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.”

– Tennessee Williams

“My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.”

— Aldous Huxley

“I walked slowly to enjoy this freedom, and when I came out of the mountains, I saw the sky over the prairie, and I thought that if heaven was real, I hoped it was a place I never had to go, for this earth was greater than any paradise.”

— Daniel J. Rice

“The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no “meaning,” they are meaning; the mountains are… I understand all this, not in my mind but in my heart, knowing how meaningless it is to try to capture what cannot be expressed, knowing that mere words will remain when I read it all again, another day.”

– Peter Matthiessen

“Mountains teach that not everything in this world can be rationally explained.”

– Aleksander Lwow

“On life and peaks it is the same. With strength, we win the grail, but courage is the thing we need to face the downward trail.”

— Jacob Clifford Moomaw

“Mountains make me believe that nothing can be bigger than nature, not even human ego.”

― Jay Kumar Singh

“It is the mountain that has been calling me, and it’s time to answer.”

― Susan Jagannath

“You move a mountain one stone at a time.”

– Catherine Pulsifer

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.”

— John Muir

“Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.”

— Dag Hammarskjold

“While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.”

– Edmund Hillary

“The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.”

– Robert M. Pirsig

“Kid, you’ll move mountains.”

― Dr. Seuss

Funny Mountain Quotes

“I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God than in church thinking of the mountains.”

— John Muir

“You need mountains, long staircases don’t make good hikers.”

– Amit Kalantri

“Mountains are all the same – just tops, middles and bottoms, sometimes with sheep on and sometimes without.”

― Enid Blyton

“Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence.”

— Hermann Buhl

“There aren’t four seasons in Rocky Mountains, but three: summer, winter, and mud.”

― C.J. Box

“Mountains terrify me – they just sit about; they are so proud.”

– Sylvia Plath

“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.”

– Victor Hugo

“In the mountains, you are sometimes invited, sometimes tolerated, and sometimes told to go home.”

— Fred Beckey

“Having been bred amongst mountains I am always unhappy when in a flat country. Whenever the skirts of the horizon come on a level with myself I feel myself quite uneasy and generally have a headache.”

 – James Hogg

“Life sucks a lot less when you add mountain air, a campfire, and some peace and quiet.”

— Brooke Hampton

“In the mountains, there are only two grades: You can either do it, or you can’t.”

— Rusty Baillie

“You don’t need to climb a mountain to know that it’s high.”

– Paulo Coelho

“Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.”

― Jeffrey Rasley

“I can’t understand why men make all this fuss about Everest — it’s only a mountain.”

– Junko Tabei (the first women to summit Everest and a major bada**!)

“I’ve realized that at the top of the mountain, there’s another mountain.”

— Andrew Garfield

Funny Mountain Captions for Instagram

“Anywhere is ‘within walking distance’.” 

“Think outside. No box required.”

“The closer you are to mountains, the further you are from idiots.”

“Fresh air, don’t care.”

“A little more altitude, a little less attitude.”

“Adjust your altitude.”

Inspiring Captions for Mountains

“The best view comes after the hardest climb.”

“Do more things that make you forget to check your phone.”

“Sky above, earth below, and peace within.”

“Oh, darling, let’s be adventurers.”

“Go where you feel the most alive.”

“If you think you’ve peaked, find a new mountain.”

“Mountains are the answer.  Who cares what the question is?” 

Short Captions for Mountain Views

“When everything feels like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top.”

“You can’t climb up a mountain with downhill thoughts.”

“All good things are wild and free.”

“Mountains are the soul’s fuel.”

“There is no mountain you can’t climb.”

“Hike more. Worry less.”

“Coffee, Mountains, Adventure.”

Beautiful Mountain Captions for Instagram

“Stop staring at mountains. Climb them instead. Yes, it’s a harder process but it will lead you to a better view.”

“When life gives you mountains, put on your boots and hike.”

“I am never lost in the mountains; it is where I find myself.”

“Life is like a mountain – climb it with no regrets!”

“Do what makes your soul happy.”

Pin these Beautiful Mountain Captions & Mountain Quotes!

Allison Green

Allison Green is a former teacher who has been travel blogging since 2016. She has a Masters in Teaching and a B.A. in English and Creative Writing. Her blog posts merge her background as an educator with her experience traveling to 70+ countries to encourage ethical, meaningful travel. She has been a speaker at the World Travel Writers Conference and her writing, photography, and podcasting work has appeared in National Geographic, CNN Arabic, CBC Canada, and Forbes, amongst others. Now a full-time traveler, she has lived in Prague, Sofia, New York City, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Are a fan of camping or planning do some camping this summer?

As a lifelong reader and an English literature graduate, I love collecting quotes — both inspirational and hilarious — and these quotes about camping are no exception.

I’ve gathered a bunch of my favorite camping quotes which range from the beautiful to the funny, as well as several short camping captions for Instagram in case these camping quotes are too long.

These camping quotes make perfect camping Instagram captions, but they’re also great for journaling, inspiring future travels, journal prompts, vision boards, etc.

Most Inspiring Camping Quotes

“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

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

— John Muir

“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

“My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.”

— Claude Monet

“Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature’s darlings.”

— John Muir

“The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

-– Henry David Thoreau

“The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule.”

— Giorgio Agamben

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep…”

Robert Frost

“A perfect day would be to get into the car, drive out to Yosemite, and go camping.”

— Michael Steger

“There is nothing worse, after days of falling asleep by a babbling brook and waking up to a choir chirping birds, than to go inside a house with insulated walls and an obstructive roof. This torturous invention, a cage, a box, prevents you from seeing or hearing anything of natural importance. Make time to free yourself and find a bit of nature.”

― Katherine Keith

“Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.”

— Alexander Eliot

Camping Quotes About Learning from Nature

“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”

— Anne Lamott

“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

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity.”

— John Muir

“The wilderness holds answers to questions we have not yet learned to ask.”

— Nancy Wynne Newhall

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

— Bill Watterson

“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my sense put in order.”

— John Burroughs

“The greatest threat to the planet is the belief someone else will take care of it.”

— Robert Swan

“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

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”

— Albert Einstein

“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

” In the woods we return to reason and faith.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Camping Quotes About the Beauty of Camping

“Sleep under a blanket of stars, and your heart will forever be kept warm by your love of life.”

— Anthony T. Hincks

“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!”

— John Muir

“Perhaps there is no thrill so great as that which comes with a walk in the freshness of morning air.”

― Helen Keller

“And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.”

— Shanti

“It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.”

— Bern Williams

“Light a campfire and everyone’s a storyteller.”

— John Geddes

“Each evening, I ached for the shelter of my tent, for the smallest sense that something was shielding me from the entire rest of the world, keeping me safe not from danger, but from vastness itself. I loved the dim, clammy dark of my tent, the cozy familiarity of the way I arranged my few belongings all around me each night.”

― Cheryl Strayed

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

— Henry David Thoreau

“A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.”

― Edward Abbey

“Cooking and eating food outdoors makes it taste infinitely better than the same meal prepared and consumed indoors.”

― Fennel Hudson

“The more civilized man becomes, the more he needs and craves a great background of forest wildness, to which he may return like a contrite prodigal from the husks of an artificial life.”

— Ellen Burns Sherman

“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

“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

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery. Air, mountains, tree, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.'”

— Sylvia Plath

“A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars.”

— Alan S. Kesselheim

“You may be a little cold some nights on mountain tops above the timber-line, but you will see the stars, and by and by you can sleep enough in your town bed. or at least in your grave. Keep awake while you may in mountain mansions so rare.”

― John Muir

“We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“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

“To wake up on a gloriously bright morning, in a tent pitched beneath spruce trees, and to look out lazily and sleepily for a moment from the open side of the tent, across the dead camp-fire of the night before… or to wake at night, when you have rolled in your blankets in the frost-stricken dying grass without a tent, and to look up through the leaves above to the dark sky and the flashing stars, and hear far off the call of a night bird or the howl of a wolf: this is the poetry, the joy of a wild and roving existence, which cannot come too often”

― Josiah Edward Spurr

“Wilderness is not a luxury but necessity of the human spirit.”

— Edward Abbey

“Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.”

— Charles Lindbergh

“Roses are red, mud is brown, the wood are better than any night on the town.”

— Earl Dibbles Jr

“If I went on vacation, I’d rather go camping than stay in some four-star hotel.”

— Travis Fimmel

Funny Camping Quotes

“Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.”

— George Carlin

“It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.”

— Dave Barry

“The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition.”

— Dave Barry

“Camping is not a date; it’s an endurance test. If you can survive camping with someone, you should marry them on the way home.”

— Yvonne Prinz

“Camping is nature’s way of promoting the motel business.”

— Dave Barry

“Fires will rage in California. And I’ll wake from nightmares of lions at my tent. And I’ll feel like a crazy person when I talk to people about the trail. And I’ll ache to come back.”

― Luke Healy

“There is no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.”

— Bill Bowerman

“The stars were better company anyway. They were very beautiful, and they almost never snored.”

— David Eddings

“My tent doesn’t look like much but, as an estate agent might say, “It is air-conditioned and has exceptional location.”

― Fennel Hudson

“Of course, not everybody likes camping trips. I do not myself enjoy them much, because I’m not outdoorsy, or at any rate, I’m not outdoorsy overnight-without-a-matress-wise. There’s a limit to the outdoorsiness to which some academics can be expected to submit.”

― G.A. Cohen

“Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing. I suppose some will wish to debate whether it is important to keep these primitive arts alive. I shall not debate it. Either you know it in your bones, or you are very, very old.”

― Aldo Leopold

“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

“I married a woman who loves to camp, and I am what you would call indoorsy… My wife always brings up, Camping’s a tradition in my family. Hey, it was a tradition in everyone’s family ’til we came up with the house.”

— Jim Gaffigan

“In a well-ordered universe… camping would take place indoors.”

— Morgan Matson

“I went camping for 33 days, and now everybody seems to care.”

— Colleen Haskell

“My fear of camping: I’m convinced bugs will crawl up my va*** and lay eggs. Isn’t everyone?” ― Kathy Griffin

“Campgrounds are never comfortable. They are merely less awful than other options. In normal circumstances, if told that the nearest available toilet was half a mile away, up a dirt path frequented by animals in gastric distress, one would lock the doors and speed to civilization. When a tent or camper is involved, one is jubilant. At least this site had flush toilets!”

― Thomm Quackenbush

“I’ve been camping and stuff, but if you left me in the woods I’d probably just curl up and cry until someone found me.”

Norman Reedus

“Is it weird that I’m taking Louis Vuitton camping?”

— Jessica Simpson

“Escape to nature is not only a simple escape from stupidities in the city, but also a great refreshment to better fight fools and stupidities when you return to the city!”

― Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I think camping is one of those things where if you’re forced into it as a child, you’ll probably hate it as an adult.”

— Jeremy Irvine

“How is it that one match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box of matches to start a campfire?”

— Christy Whitehead

“What on earth would I do if four bears came into my camp? Why, I would die of course. Literally sh** myself lifeless.”

― Bill Bryson

“I got into an argument with a girlfriend inside of a tent. That’s a bad place for an argument, because then I tried to walk out and slammed the flap. How are you supposed to express your anger in this situation? Zipper it up really quick?”

– Mitch Hedberg

“Anna had read books about people in the cities going camping. They would leave their comfortable homes and beds and deliberately sleep in tents, on the ground, then cook their food outside over an open fire instead of in a well-stocked kitchen. She couldn’t imagine something so ridiculous.”

― Gail Sattler

“What’s that?”
“French press.”
“For coffee? Real coffee? Not instant?”
“We’re camping, Zorie, not living in a dystopian nightmare.”

― Jenn Bennett

Funny Camping Captions & Anonymous Quotes

“Camping: The art of getting closer to nature while getting farther away from the nearest cold beverage, hot shower, and flush toilet.”

“Donating blood, one mosquito at a time.”

“A bad day camping is still better than a good day working.”

“Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy a camper, which is kind of the same thing.”

“It’s all good in the woods.”

“Camping is in tents!” (like this camping pun? I’ve thought of 33 others, plus a few below!)

“I camp believe you don’t like nature.”

“May the forest be with you!”

“Life is s’more fun with friends.” 

Inspiring Camping Captions & Anonymous Quotes

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

“I am most alive among the tall trees.”

“I don’t need a therapist. I go camping often.”

“Time camping isn’t time spent, it’s time invested.”

“Away is a place where it’s not about the money you spend. It’s about the moments you share.”

“Camp more. Worry less.”

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Allison Green

Allison Green is a former teacher who has been travel blogging since 2016. She has a Masters in Teaching and a B.A. in English and Creative Writing. Her blog posts merge her background as an educator with her experience traveling to 70+ countries to encourage ethical, meaningful travel. She has been a speaker at the World Travel Writers Conference and her writing, photography, and podcasting work has appeared in National Geographic, CNN Arabic, CBC Canada, and Forbes, amongst others. Now a full-time traveler, she has lived in Prague, Sofia, New York City, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Part of the fun of a camping trip is all the conversation that comes along with it, once you’re disconnected from the real world.

While you can definitely dive deep with philosophical questions or just get to know people better over typical stuff like favorite thing questions, you can also take a different path — a more knee-slapping one.

If you’re planning a camping trip and you want to come e-quipped (get it?) with plenty of camping puns, you’ll need better than your standard ‘camping is in-tents‘ jokes!

I’ve racked my brains to come up with some of the best camping puns that will actually make you laugh (and okay, some of these puns about camping will make you groan as well — that’s the nature of a camping dad joke!)

Here are the funniest camping puns I could come up with!

33 Camping Puns That’ll Actually Make You Laugh

Pitch, don’t kill my vibe!

Camping? Alpaca my tent!

You can’t have your kayak and eat it too!

No more bad camping puns! I can’t bear it!

For all in-tents and purposes, camping is just sleeping outside!

Relax! You’re too tents.

I could go camping forest of my life!

Me and campfires — the perfect match!

Let’s go camping — try not to s’more

The s’more the merrier

Laugh s’more, worry less

I camp believe you’ve never slept in a tent!

RV there yet?

I caravan about you

You make me a happy camper

Can we do it? Campervan!

Wood you please start a fire?

Wood you like to go camping?

These bad camping puns really yurt me.

Camping: like many of the best things in life, it’s tree.

All’s fire in love and camping

We’re out of firewood — don’t flame the messenger!

Thank you very match for starting the fire

You’ve really got a chip on your smolder

Nothing can hold a kindle to a warm campfire

Being around a warm campfire is pyro-dise

Axe and you shall receive

Let’s go camping, just for the hill of it!

Taking a break from camping to catch summer rays

I conifer you a discount on camping puns

You’re invading my personal spruce!

I need my alone pine

Allison Green

Allison Green is a former teacher who has been travel blogging since 2016. She has a Masters in Teaching and a B.A. in English and Creative Writing. Her blog posts merge her background as an educator with her experience traveling to 70+ countries to encourage ethical, meaningful travel. She has been a speaker at the World Travel Writers Conference and her writing, photography, and podcasting work has appeared in National Geographic, CNN Arabic, CBC Canada, and Forbes, amongst others. Now a full-time traveler, she has lived in Prague, Sofia, New York City, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

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I do love hiking… but I love a good hiking pun more!

If you’re looking for some funny hiking puns to go with a hiking Insta photo or just to make your trail companions groan on your next hike, I’ve thought up some hilarious puns about hiking to keep everyone in stitches.

Here are my favorite hiking puns!

50 Witty Hiking Puns

I love camping — it’s in-tents

I love hiking — I don’t take it for granite

Don’t be a pine in the ass!

Two’s companies, trees a crowd

Come on, summit up now!

Be sure to leaf your worries behind

These views are unbe-leaf-able!

Wood you like to go for a hike with me?

I’m trying to mount-ain my distance

Hiking puns are hill-arious!

Hiking is a hill of a lot of fun!

Maybe she’s born with it. Maybe it’s maple leaves.

Hiking with my birches

I fernly believe in the quality of my hiking puns!

Quali-tree control

Hiking is all the range

These boots were made for hikin’.

Hiking with just me and my buds

Woke up feeling pine

I went for a hike, now I’m feel oak-ay

May the forest be with you.

The hill looked hard at first, but I got over it.

Gotta keep hiking, come hill or high water

These views are beautiful as far as the eye canyon see

Dew you love morning walks in the woods?

If something’s bothering you, shrub it off and go for a hike!

Let’s meet for branch and go for a hike!

What were you saying? I lost my terrain of though

What you were saying about hiking really peaked my interest!

There’s snow place like the mountains

I’ve found the mountain of youth — it’s hiking

Slow down! Don’t you Everest?

If you’re feeling bad, you better change your altitude

Are you done with the bad hiking puns? I can’t bear any more!

This hike? More like climb and punishment!

Stop! Don’t peak!

Actions peak louder than words

Don’t burn your ridges

Keep your eyes on the rise

Don’t get your slopes up

Steep and cheerful

I’m all a-boot that hiking life

Range against the machine!

Have you tried hiking? It really Alps clear your mind!

Andes-cent exposure

I’ve caught Himalayan once or twice.

I’ve been around the rock a couple of times.

Tall no lies!

At times hike this, you just have to get outside

You’ve got to hike a balance

Canyon help me out?

Allison Green

Allison Green is a former teacher who has been travel blogging since 2016. She has a Masters in Teaching and a B.A. in English and Creative Writing. Her blog posts merge her background as an educator with her experience traveling to 70+ countries to encourage ethical, meaningful travel. She has been a speaker at the World Travel Writers Conference and her writing, photography, and podcasting work has appeared in National Geographic, CNN Arabic, CBC Canada, and Forbes, amongst others. Now a full-time traveler, she has lived in Prague, Sofia, New York City, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Sometimes, it can be hard to put the impressive landscapes we see into words.

As a lifetime lover and student of the English language, I’ve made it my mission to gather some of the best travel quotes from authors around the world — this post focuses on beautiful hiking quotes.

These quotes about hiking are the perfect fuel for your wanderlust, or they’re perfect to use as hiking captions for Instagram.

I’ve included a mix of inspiring, literary, and funny hiking quotes to choose from, as well as some short hiking captions for Instagram that are pithy and to-the-point.

I’ll start with my favorite hiking quotes and quotes about mountains, and then I’ll go into some hiking Instagram captions at the end of the post if you’re looking for something short and sweet.

Beautiful Hiking Quotes About Mountains

“Climbing is as close as we can come to flying.”

— Margaret Young

“It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”

— Sir Edmund Hillary (and as part of the first team to summit Mount Everest, I think he knows a little bit about hiking and mountains!)

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing the lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”

– Jack Kerouac

“You’re off to great places, today is your day. Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way.”

— Dr. Seuss

“Mountains teach that not everything in this world can be rationally explained.”

– Aleksander Lwow

“Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.”

— Greg Child

“No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.”

— Ansel Adams

“There are two kinds of climbers, those who climb because their heart sings when they’re in the mountains, and all the rest.”

— Alex Lowe

“The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain; he is inspired by it.”

– William Arthur Ward

“Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.”

— John Ruskin

“It is the mountain that has been calling me, and it’s time to answer.”

― Susan Jagannath

“Each fresh peak ascended teaches something.”

— Sir Martin Conway

“Mountains make me believe that nothing can be bigger than nature, not even human ego.”

― Jay Kumar Singh

“How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.”

— Yvon Chouinard

“Every mountain has its soul… if the mountain does not accept you, and you don’t submit to her will, she will destroy you.”

― Bernadette McDonald

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.”

— John Muir

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”

— John Muir

“Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.”

— Dag Hammarskjold

“I walked slowly to enjoy this freedom, and when I came out of the mountains, I saw the sky over the prairie, and I thought that if heaven was real, I hoped it was a place I never had to go, for this earth was greater than any paradise.”

— Daniel J. Rice

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”

— William Blake

“Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.”

— Paul D. Boyer

“You need mountains, long staircases don’t make good hikers.”

– Amit Kalantri

“You never climb the same mountain twice, not even in memory. Memory rebuilds the mountain, changes the weather, retells the jokes, remakes all the moves.”

— Lito Tejada-Flores

“Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.”

— Anatoli Boukreev

Inspiring Quotes About Hiking, Mindset, & Mindfulness

“The moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“A walk in nature walks the soul back home.”

— Mary Davis

“I found far more answers in the woods than I ever did in the city.”

— Mary Davis

“My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.”

— Aldous Huxley

“I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than trees.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“People don’t take trips, trips take people.”

— John Steinbeck

“Walking in solitude fixes nothing, but it leads you to the place where you can identify the malady—see the wound’s true form and nature—and then discern the proper medicine.”

– Aspen Matis

“If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.”

– Raymond Inmon

“We live in a fast-paced society. Walking slows us down.”

— Robert Sweetgall

“If you face the rest of your life with the spirit you show on the trail, it will have no choice but to yield the same kind of memories and dreams.”

― Adrienne Hall

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.”

— John Muir

“If everyone in the world took care of each other the way folks do out on the trail, and if everyone approached each day with as much hope and optimism as hikers do, the world would be a better place.”

– Jon Tullis

“Hiking is not escapism; it’s realism. The people who choose to spend time outdoors are not running away from anything; we are returning to where we belong.”

– Jennifer Pharr Davis

“You can’t find happiness at the end of your journey if you didn’t bring it with you all along.”

— Katrina Mayer

“Walking is a man’s best medicine.”

— Hippocrates

“I was no longer following a trail. I was learning to follow myself.”

― Aspen Matis

“I love going out of my way, beyond what I know, and finding my way back a few extra miles, by another trail, with a compass that argues with the map.”

― Rebecca Solnit

“Think while walking, walk while thinking, and let writing be but the light pause, as the body on a walk rests in contemplation of wide open spaces.”

― Frédéric Gros

“Hiking is a bit like life. The journey only requires you to put one foot in front of the other…again and again and again. And if you allow yourself the opportunity to be present throughout the entirety of the trek, you will witness beauty every step of the way, not just at the summit”

— Unknown

“Adventure isn’t hanging off a rope on the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life”

— John Amatt

“The best journeys in life are those that answer questions you never thought to ask.”

— Rich Ridgeway

“Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.”

― David McCullough Jr.

Classic Hiking Quotes

“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.”

— John Muir

“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.”

— Rosalia de Castro

“For hiking is one of those things that you can only do when you have the determination in you.”

— Carl Sagan

“I slow down when hiking. The rhythm of nature is more leisurely. The sun comes up, it moves across the sky, and you begin to synchronize to that rhythm.”

– John Mackey

 “Walking: the most ancient exercise and still the best.”

— Carrie Latet

“Trails enabled me to better see the world, to notice fine aspects invisible from an airplane, the most basic things we miss. Seeing life at a pace at which you can actually observe nuance, the speed of stepping, the beautiful inspiring texture of “plain” reality becomes visible—God smiling in the detail.”

― Aspen Matis

“We don’t stop hiking because we grow old. We grow old because we stop hiking.”

— Finis Mitchell

“The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot”

― Werner Herzog

“There is always an adventure waiting in the woods.”

― Katelyn S. Bolds

“Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you’re no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn’t just a means to an end but a unique event in itself.”

— Robert M. Pirsig

“May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits”

– Harley King

“Complete freedom is not what a trail offers. Quite the opposite; a trail is a tactful reduction of options.”

― Robert Moor

“Where the signposts end, the trail begins.”

― Marty Rubin

“The mountains were there and so was I.”

— Maurice Herzog

“To walk in nature is to witness a thousand miracles.”

— Lao Tzu

“I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don’t think of anything but the people I care about and the view.”

– Julian Lennon

“Trails are routes to remembrance just as they are routes to knowledge.”

― T.P. Lye

“I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth.  Then I ask myself the same question.”

— Harun Yahya

Best Quotes About Hiking & Being Prepared

“Carry as little as possible, but choose that little with care.”

— Earl Shaffer

“You need special shoes for hiking—and a bit of a special soul as well.”

— Terri Guillemets

“There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.”

– Sir Rannulph Fiennes

“It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.”

— Robert W. Service

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

– Confucius

“She introduced people to the A.T., and at the same time she made the thru-hike achievable. It didn’t take fancy equipment, guidebooks, training, or youthfulness. It took putting one foot in front of the other—five million times.”

― Ben Montgomery

“The old school of thought would have you believe that you’d be a fool to take on nature without arming yourself with every conceivable measure of safety and comfort under the sun. But that isn’t what being in nature is all about. Rather, it’s about feeling free, unbounded, shedding the distractions and barriers of our civilization—not bringing them with us.”

― Ryel Kestenbaum

“When preparing to climb a mountain – pack a light heart.”

— Dan May

“I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.”

― Cheryl Strayed

Best Quotes About Hiking & Challenges

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.”

– Edward Abbey

“The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“If you’re on the right path it will always be uphill”

– Henry B. Eyring

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.”

– Barry Finlay

“The higher you climb on the mountain, the harder the wind blows.”

— Sam Cummings

“The best way out is always through.”

– Robert Frost

“Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves and half in love with oblivion.”

– Robert MacFarlane

“After a day’s walk, everything has twice its usual value.”

— G.M. Trevelyan

“Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.”

― Jeffrey Rasley

“There really is no correct way to hike the trail, and anyone who insists that there is ought not to worry so much about other people’s experiences. Hikers need to hike the trail that’s right for them,”

― Adrienne Hall

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”

— Beverly Sills

 “If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”

— Frank A. Clark

“I’ve realized that at the top of the mountain, there’s another mountain.”

— Andrew Garfield

“The danger of adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.”

— Paulo Coelho

“You won, this time. But you are as big as you are ever going to get. And I’m still growing.”

— Sir Edmund Hillary

“Fall down seven times and stand up eight.”

— Japanese Proverb

“Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence.”

— Hermann Buhl

“Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.”

— Ed Viesturs

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”

— Winston Churchill

Best Trekking Quotes About Long Distance Hiking

“Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking. You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.”

— Cindy Ross

“Days of slow walking are very long: they make you live longer because you have allowed every hour, every minute, every second to breathe, to deepen, instead of filling them up by straining the joints.”

– Frédéric Gros

“It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B. It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises, and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way.”

― Cheryl Strayed

“I considered my options. There were only two and they were essentially the same. I could go back in the direction I had come from, or I could go forward in the direction I intended to go.”

― Cheryl Strayed

“I refuse to let this suffering be for nothing. In fact, I refuse to suffer.” I whispered to myself as I pushed each tent stake into the ground. “I can adapt. I am adapting.” Another long day was done and I was forty-two miles closer to Canada.”

― Heather “Anish” Anderson

“The trail was designed to have no end, a wild place on which to be comfortably lost for as long as one desired. In those early days nobody fathomed walking the thing from beginning to end in one go. Section hikes, yes. Day hikes, too. But losing yourself for five months, measuring your body against the earth, fingering the edge of mental and physical endurance, wasn’t the point. The trail was to be considered in sections, like a cow is divided into cuts of beef. Even if you sample every slice, to eat the entire beast in a single sitting was not the point. Before 1948, it wasn’t even considered possible.”

― Ben Montgomery

“I would never have started this trip if I had known how tough it was, but I couldn’t and wouldn’t quit.”

― Ben Montgomery

“Let’s not mince words: Everest doesn’t attract a whole lot of well-balanced folks. The self-selection process tends to weed out the cautious and the sensible in favor of those who are single-minded and incredibly driven. Which is a big reason the mountain is so dangerous.”

– Jon Krakauer

“A significant fraction of thru-hikers reach Katahdin, then turn around and start back to Georgia. They just can’t stop walking, which kind of makes you wonder.”

― Bill Bryson

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

— Lao Tzu

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.”

— Edward Abbey

The long-distance hiker, a breed set apart, from the likes of the usual pack. He’ll shoulder his gear, be hittin’ the trail; long gone, long ‘fore he’ll be back.”

— M.J. Eberhart

“Trekking means a traveling experience with a thrilling excitement.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Under gold clouds, he pushed the limits of my body, setting a faster pace—some days surpassing forty rugged miles, unstopping through morning’s thick peach haze; noon’s warmth; red evening sun.”

― Aspen Matis

“On a hike, the days pass with the wind, the sun, the stars; movement is powered by a belly full of food and water, not a noxious tankful of fossil fuels. On a hike, you’re less a job title and more a human being. A periodic hike not only stretches the limbs but also reminds us: Wow, there’s a big old world out there.”

— Ken Ilgunas

“Within minutes my 115-mile walk through the desert hills becomes a thing apart, a disjunct reality on the far side of a bottomless abyss, immediately beyond physical recollection. But it’s all still there in my heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure—they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days to come, like a treasure found and then, voluntarily, surrendered. Returned to the mountains with my blessing. It leaves a golden glowing on the mind.”

― Edward Abbey

Hilarious Quotes About Hiking & Funny Hiking Captions

“Hiking is just walking where it’s okay to pee.”

— Demetri Martin

“Hiking’s not for everyone. Notice the wilderness is mostly empty.”

– Sonja Yoerg

“Hiking is the only slightly less ugly stepsister of running.”

― Lindy Hughes

“Never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost, and you see a path.  By all means, you should follow that.”

— Ellen Degeneres

“I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.”

– G.M. Trevelyan

“In the mountains, there are only two grades: You can either do it, or you can’t.”

— Rusty Baillie

“Hiking and happiness go hand in hand (or foot in boot.)”

— Diane Spicer

“I can’t understand why men make all this fuss about Everest — it’s only a mountain.”

– Junko Tabei (the first women to summit Everest and a major bada**!)

“Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.”

— Sir Edmund Hillary

“Wise people make trails and paths, clever walk on them – stupid people can’t decide.”

― Deyth Banger

“Trails are like that: you’re floating along in a Shakespearean Arden paradise and expect to see nymphs and flute boys, then suddenly you’re struggling in a hot broiling sun of hell in dust and nettles and poison oak…just like life.”

― Jack Kerouac

“Hiking—much like drinking—is something that sounds more fun to the uninitiated than it actually is.”

― Mindy McGinnis

“I like being near the top of a mountain, One can’t get lost here.”

– Wislawa Szymborska

“I hate hiking with convicts carrying machetes.”

― Susan Orlean

“Remember that time spent on a rock climb is not subtracted from your lifespan.”

— Will Niccolls

“What on earth would I do if four bears came into my camp? Why, I would die of course. Literally sh** myself lifeless.”

― Bill Bryson

“A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.”

― Edward Abbey

Best Hiking Captions & Anonymous Quotes

“If you think you’ve peaked, find a new mountain.”

“Anywhere is ‘within walking distance’.” 

“Adventure awaits.”

“There is no WiFi in the mountains, but you will find a better connection.”

“Not all girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice…  some girls are made of adventure and wine and all things fine.”

“Think outside. No box required.”

“The best view comes after the hardest climb.”

“Do more things that make you forget to check your phone.”

Everyone needs someone who will call and say, ‘Get dressed.  We’re going on an adventure.'” 

“Some women want diamonds… others just want a hammock, a campfire and some peace & quiet.” 

“Sky above, earth below, and peace within.”

“Oh, darling, let’s be adventurers.”

“Go where you feel the most alive.”

 “When everything feels like an uphill struggle, Just think of the view from the top.”

“It’s a hill. Get over it.”

“I have a therapist. Her name is hiking.”

“Let’s wander where the WiFi is weak.”

“I hike to burn off the crazy.”

“Stop staring at mountains. Climb them instead. Yes, it’s a harder process but it will lead you to a better view.”

“The closer you are to nature, the further you are from idiots.”

“Hiking is the answer.  Who cares what the question is?” 

“Life is better in hiking boots.”

“When life gives you mountains, put on your boots and hike.”

“You can’t climb up a mountain with downhill thoughts.”

“It feels good to be lost in the right direction”

“Coffee, Mountains, Adventure.”

“All good things are wild and free.”

“Move the body, still the mind.”

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Allison Green is a former teacher who has been travel blogging since 2016. She has a Masters in Teaching and a B.A. in English and Creative Writing. Her blog posts merge her background as an educator with her experience traveling to 70+ countries to encourage ethical, meaningful travel. She has been a speaker at the World Travel Writers Conference and her writing, photography, and podcasting work has appeared in National Geographic, CNN Arabic, CBC Canada, and Forbes, amongst others. Now a full-time traveler, she has lived in Prague, Sofia, New York City, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Can you beleaf I’ve come up with 101 nature puns? It took a lot of pine and energy, but I’ve done it.

Shore enough, there are over a hundred puns about nature in this post, reed-y to be used for funny nature captions for Instagram or just to make your friends groan on your next hiking trip.

From puns about forests and to puns about oceans and beaches, here are my favorite silly nature puns!

Nature Puns About Forests

May the forest be with you!

This view is tree-mendous!

I have plant-y of time.

Don’t take me for plant-ed

Dew you love morning walks in the woods?

Go with the flower

A bloom with a view

Once and floral

Take it or leaf it

Leaf it at that

What a releaf!

This view is blossom!

Me and my best fronds

Tree’s company

Shrub it off

All you seed is love

Ferning with curiosity

Feel the fern

Live and fern

I’m at a moss for words

Flower to the people!

No ifs ands or buds

Don’t stalk it till you’ve tried it!

Try branching out

Let’s meet for branch!

Beyond a rhizome-able doubt

For what it’s earth

We ground love in a hopeless place

I’d do it all clover again

Go against the green

As fir as the eyes can see

Working pine to five

Life’s a birch

Made for beech other

Live today ash if there were no tomorrow

Nature Puns About Mountains

I’ve found the mountain of youth!

I’ve lost my terrain of though

Take a peak around

You’ve really peaked my interest

There’s snow place like the mountains

Slow down – don’t you Everest?

No man is a highland

You’d better change your altitude

Are you done with the bad puns? I can’t bear it!

I lava you a lot!

Ridge the gap

Life is full of rise and lows

Make summit noise

Hiking is all the range

Climb and punishment

My sediments exactly

As far as the eye canyon see

Nature Puns About the Ocean

Watery doing here?

We can do waterever you want

I’m tide of ocean puns!

Tropic like it’s hot

Wave new world

As far as the eye can sea

What’s all the comm-ocean?

Nature Puns About Beaches

Life’s a beach!

To beach their own

Don’t be so shallow!

Any-waves, life is good!

Will you be my buoy-friend?

Be reasona-bubble!

The beach has a palming effect

Stop squidding around

Getting my Vitamin sea

Let’s take the sea-nic route

Seak and you shall find

Knot on my watch!

The beach is my sand-tuary

I can’t sand leaving!

I don’t give into pier pressure

Nature Puns About Lakes

I lake you a lot!

Lake a fish out of water.

Dock to the hand!

Sooner oar later

I’ll be dam‘ed

Stop being a pain in the boat!

There are such boat-iful people out here on the lake!

Ready for a ferry bad pun?

I can’t think of any more boat puns. Canoe?

Nature Puns About Rivers

Currently chilling.

Roe roe roe your boat

Streaming now!

This river is too mainstream

Nature Puns About The Desert

The desert isn’t all it’s cactus up to be.

Cactus makes perfect!

Cactus what you preach

It’s a-drought time!

Desert bother you?

Are you saguaro yourself?

Don’t mesa with me

Allison Green

Allison Green is a former teacher who has been travel blogging since 2016. She has a Masters in Teaching and a B.A. in English and Creative Writing. Her blog posts merge her background as an educator with her experience traveling to 70+ countries to encourage ethical, meaningful travel. She has been a speaker at the World Travel Writers Conference and her writing, photography, and podcasting work has appeared in National Geographic, CNN Arabic, CBC Canada, and Forbes, amongst others. Now a full-time traveler, she has lived in Prague, Sofia, New York City, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

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If you want to find some beautiful nature captions for your Instagram posts or want some thoughtful outdoor quotes to inspire your next adventure, this post has you covered!

As an English literature graduate, travel writer, and poet, I love collecting beautiful words that describe our incredible planet and our experiences interacting with it.

I’ve gathered these beautiful outdoor quotes from writers throughout the centuries and around the globe to hopefully inspire your travels. These are the perfect quotes about nature and the outdoors to use if you’re looking for inspiring nature captions for your Instagram posts!

I’ve included a mix of literary and poetic outdoor quotes as well as funny nature quotes (because everyone knows a walk in nature is not always a walk in the park!), so you can find the perfect nature caption or quote for any occasion, rain or shine!

My Favorite Outdoor Quotes: Inspiration for Nature Captions

“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The earth laughs in flowers.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nature never hurries. Atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Colors are the smiles of nature.”

― Leigh Hunt

“Choose only one master—nature.”

― Rembrandt

“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”

― Henri Matisse

“I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”

― Vincent van Gogh

“My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.”

― Claude Monet

“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

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.’ “

— Sylvia Plath

“Leave the roads; take the trails.”

― Pythagoras

“Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.”

― Gerard De Nerval

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

― John Keats

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”

― Aristotle

“Nature does nothing uselessly.”

― Aristotle

“Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”

― Carl Sagan

“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”

― Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”

― Albert Einstein

“We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.”

― Albert Einstein

“If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.”

― A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.”

― Marie Curie

“The earth has music for those who listen.”

― George Santayana

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”

― Henry David Thoreau

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”

― Henry David Thoreau

“An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”

― Henry David Thoreau

“Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mother’s face.”

―Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time.”

― Katrina Mayer

“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”

― Joseph Campbell

“For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.”

― Jacques-Yves Cousteau

“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”

― E.B. White

“Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”

― Hans Christian Andersen

“If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence, we could rise up rooted like trees.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.”

― Theodore Roethke

“It was for the best, so Nature had no choice but to do it.:

― Marcus Aurelius

“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”

― John Muir

“I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news.”

― John Muir

“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt. “

― John Muir

“The mountains are calling, and I must go.”

― John Muir

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”

― John Muir

“The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”

―John Muir

“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”

― Frank Lloyd Wright

“Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.”

― Antoni Gaudi

“Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.”

― Walt Whitman

“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”

― Helen Keller

“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.”

― Iris Murdoch

“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, rejoice, for your soul is alive.”

― Eleanora Duse

“Nature is the art of God.”

― Dante Alighieri

“Beauty awakens the soul to act.”

– Dante Alighieri

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”

― William Shakespeare

“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”

― Gary Snyder

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

― Lao Tzu

“Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.”

― Lao Tzu

“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon the verdant green hills is the most perfect refreshment”

— Jane Austin

“A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.”

— Edward Abbey

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.”

— Edward Abbey

“The earth is what we all have in common.”

— Wendell Berry

“I think it annoys God if you walk by the color purple in a field and don’t notice.”

— Alice Walker

“The butterfly counts not months but moments; and has time enough.”

— Rabindranith Tagore

“Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.”

— Standing Bear

“How could this earth of ours, which is only a speck in the heavens, have so much variety of life, so many curious and exciting creatures?”

— Walt Disney

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods.”

— Lord Byron

“Look for a lovely thing and you will find it. It is not far – It never will be far.”

— Sara Teasdale

“All our wisdom is stored in the trees.”

– Santosh Kalwar

Healing Quotes About Nature & Nature Captions about Self Discovery

“By discovering nature, you discover yourself.”

— Maxime Lagacé

“A walk in nature, walks the soul back home.”

– Mary Davis

“Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.”

― John Muir

“And into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul.”

― John Muir

“The sun shines not on us but in us.”

― John Muir

“Between every two pines there is a doorway to a new world.”

— John Muir

“Come to the woods for here is rest.”

– John Muir

“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”

― John Burroughs

“Walk in nature and feel the healing power of the trees.”

– Anthony William

“Go outside. Don’t tell anyone and don’t bring your phone. Start walking and keep walking until you no longer know the road like the palm of your hand, because we walk the same roads day in and day out, to the bus and back home and we cease to see.”

― Charlotte Eriksson

“There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it.”

― Charlotte Eriksson

“Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.”

― Henry David Thoreau

“I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.”

― Henry David Thoreau

“There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.”

―Linda Hogan

“Looking at the beauty in nature is the first step of purifying the mind.”

– Amit Ray

“Nature itself is the best physician.”

– Hippocrates

“Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.”

―Gretel Ehrlich

“The greener the setting, the more the relief.”

– Richard Louv

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”

― Rachel Carson

“The contemplation of nature can free one of the ego – the great troublemaker.”

– Eckhart Tolle

“Nature can bring you to stillness, that is its gift to you.”

– Eckhart Tolle

Nature Quotes & Nature Captions about Overcoming Challenges

“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.”

― Alice Walker

“There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”

― Rachel Carson

“Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.”

― Theodore Roethke

“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”

― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.”

― Edward Abbey

“There is no exquisite beauty…without some strangeness in the proportion.”

― Edgar Allen Poe

“The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.”

― D. H. Lawrence

“An inflexible tree breaks in a storm.”

―Matshona Dhliwayo

“A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.”

― James Russell Lowell

“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.”

― Roger Miller

Quotes About Nature Photography: Perfect Nature Captions for Instagram!

“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”

― Marc Riboud

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.”

― Ansel Adams

“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.”

– Ansel Adams

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”

― Ansel Adams

“A camera is a SAVE button for the mind’s eye.” 

– Roger Kingston

“In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.”

– August Sander

“My photography is the result of being there at the right moment.”

– Rene Burri

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.”

– Dorothea Lange

“Only photograph what you love.”

– Tim Walker

“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.”

― Albert Einstein

“Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.”

– Joe McNally

Funny Nature Quotes and Nature Captions

“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.”

― Isaac Newton

“If people think that nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.”

― Kurt Vonnegut

“Trees are always a relief, after people.”

– David Mitchell

“Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!'”

― Robin Williams

“I love nature, I just don’t want to get any of it on me.”

— Woody Allen

“The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

— Mark Twain

“Architects cannot teach nature anything.”

— Mark Twain

“Life sucks a lot less when you add mountain air, a campfire and some peace and quiet.”

— Brooke Hampton

“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”

― William Shakespeare

“On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.”

― Jules Renard

“If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much.”

— Mary Oliver

“Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable.”

— Mary Oliver

“If you can’t be in awe of Mother Nature, there’s something wrong with you.”

― Alex Trebek

Anonymous Nature Captions & Quotes

Go where you feel most alive.

Let’s find some beautiful place to get lost.

Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.

The best views comes after the hardest climb.

Not all classrooms have four walls.

Nature – cheaper than therapy.

Nature never goes out of style.

The forest makes your heart gentle.

Sky above, earth below, and peace within.

There is beauty in simplicity.

Always take the scenic route.

Be kind to everything that lives.

Nature speaks softly. You have to listen to it carefully.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

No one rises suddenly in the world, not even the sun.

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Allison Green

Allison Green is a former teacher who has been travel blogging since 2016. She has a Masters in Teaching and a B.A. in English and Creative Writing. Her blog posts merge her background as an educator with her experience traveling to 70+ countries to encourage ethical, meaningful travel. She has been a speaker at the World Travel Writers Conference and her writing, photography, and podcasting work has appeared in National Geographic, CNN Arabic, CBC Canada, and Forbes, amongst others. Now a full-time traveler, she has lived in Prague, Sofia, New York City, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

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