105 Inspiring Hiking & Mountain Quotes for Instagram

Discover inspirational and motivational mountain quotes for Instagram posts to complement your powerful photos showcasing mountain vistas, mountain landscapes, hiking adventures, getting back to nature, and outdoor explorations.

As you post to Instagram, whether it is a video or photograph, adding just the right caption encapsulates the feeling, the beauty, and the message. For travelers and adventurers, motivational hiking quotes and mountain captions enhance the brief glimpse a photo gives of the beauty and majesty of the mountains.

• Mountains promote solitude. They are for the introvert.
• Mountains need to be shared. They are for the extrovert.

105 Mountain Quotes for Your Instagram Posts

According to Paul Piff, PhD, when you spend time in the mountains, you receive mental, social, and health benefits by being outdoors: you experience awe. Piff affirms that, “time outdoors, and particularly experiences that invoke awe, are among the most meaningful, memorable, and socially connecting experiences one can have.”

Mountains are monumental; you and I are drawn to things that are greater than we are.

Chris and I spend many weekends all year long hiking in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. We love the adventure. We love the thrill of the climb. We love the beautiful vistas that greet us along the way AND at our destination. (And I might even be thinking of motivational mountain quotes as I climb and snap photos along the way!)

We can give thanks to John Muir, a famous naturalist and conservationist. He is credited with the creation of the US National Park System as well as the establishment of the Sierra Club which focuses on increasing awareness about preserving the country’s wilderness. The mountains are accessible.

Motivational Mountain Quotes

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! ~John Muir

It always seems impossible until it’s done. ~Nelson Mandela

Stop following others and forge your own path in life.

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

The earth has music for those who listen. ~William Shakespeare

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

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

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things. ~Edmund Hillary

No matter how rough it gets, just keep moving.

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.

We don’t stop hiking because we grow old—we grow old because we stop hiking. ~Finis Mitchell

When you’re tired, focus on the view.

The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters. ~Conrad Anker

Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb. ~Greg Child

When everything feels like an uphill struggle, focus on the view from the top. 

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 Erickson

Embrace the detours. ~Kevin Charbonneau 

Adventure is worthwhile in itself. ~Amelia Earhart

There’s a big old world out there! Never stop exploring.

We cannot lower the mountain, therefore we must elevate ourselves. ~Todd Skinner

There is always an adventure waiting in the woods. ~Katelyn S. Bolds

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mountains are my happy place.

Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence. ~Hermann Buhl

Beyond the mountains, more mountains. ~Haitian proverb

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

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

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Friendship, Love & Mountain Quotes

Take your potential someone into the forest. If they smile through the sweat and whistle with the wind, your adventures will never end.

Oh, darling, let’s be adventurers.

I’ve fallen in love with adventures, so I begin to wonder if that’s why I’ve fallen for you. ~Unknown

Life was meant for good friends and great adventures.

Sometimes, all you need is a great friend and a thirst for adventure.

A good friend listens to your adventures. A best friend makes them with you.

Happiness is hiking with friends.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains. ~William Shakespeare

There is a whole world out there. Pack your backpack, your best friend, and go.

The right someone will hack through the bushes and challenge the woods, but most importantly, they’ll enjoy every step with you. ~Unknown

Here’s to all the places we went. And here’s to all the places we’ll go. And here’s to me, whispering again and again and again and again; I love you. ~John Green

Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures. ~Lewis Carroll

Bring me coffee, take me hiking, and tell me I’m sexy. ~Unknown

Why should a relationship mean settling down? Wait for someone who won’t let life escape you, who’ll challenge you and drive you towards your dreams. Someone spontaneous who you can get lost in the world with. ~Beau Taplin

I have loved her, my little wanderer, with a mind full of wild forests and eyes that await adventures. ~Conny Cernik

Find love with someone who loves your free spirit, someone who has no intention of restricting your wild side but someone who wants to set it free and run with you.

Adventure Quotes for Instagram

I’d rather be hiking in the rain than sitting inside at a desk on a sunny day.

Always say yes to new adventures.

Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory. ~Ed Viesturs

You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong. – Sue Fitzmaurice

There is always an adventure waiting in the woods. ~Katelyn S. Bolds

Jobs fill your pockets, adventures fill your soul.

If happiness is the goal, and it should be, then adventures should be top priority. ~Richard Branson

The mountains whisper for me to wander; my soul hikes to the call. ~Angie Weiland Crosby

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. ~T. S. Eliot

Hiking Quotes

This hike rocked!

You are never too old to play outside.

I don’t get it. The trail looked so flat on the map.

Bring a compass. It’s awkward when you have to eat your friends.

Hiking is cheaper than therapy.

Hiking is my cardio.

I hike to burn off the crazy.

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.

I may look as though I am listening to you, but in my mind, I am hiking.

The closer you are to nature the further you are from idiots.

Hiking side effects include sweating, euphoria and general awesomeness.

You need a change of altitude!

Hiking—adventure served on the rocks.

Always hike with someone in worse shape than you. The bears will know.

Short & Sweet Mountain Quotes & Hiking Quotes

Just wander more.

Take a hike!

On top of the world.

Find yourself in the mountains.

Elevate your perspective.

Be a summit seeker.

Climb every mountain.

Adventure awaits on the peaks.

High altitude. Low stress.

Mountains are nature’s skyscrapers.

The higher you climb, the better the view.

Hiking is my path to happiness.

Wander with wonder.

Life is better with a view.

Getting Back to Nature While Hiking Quotes

Here is a photo of me and my therapist.

Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians. ~Chinese Proverb

The closer you are to nature the further you are from idiots.

Nature is the greatest place to heal and recharge.

Sometimes, nature is all you need. ~Shikoba

Deep in the forest, I stroll to hear the wisdom of my soul. ~Angie Weiland Crosby

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 

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing views. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. ~Edward Abbey

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. ~Aristotle

Punny Hiking & Mountain Captions for Instagram

You seem to hike a lot. Don’t you Everest?

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

Sleeping bags are the soft tacos of the bear world.

To summit all up…we had a great time. 

This is my kind of streaming.

I’ve got gorge-ous views as far as the eye canyon see.

Mountains aren’t just funny. They’re hill-arious.

Hey, did you hear the joke about the hill? I couldn’t get over it!

On a tree-mendous hike with you.

May the forest be with you.

On a tree-mendous hike with you.

I’m all a-boot hiking.

Hiking can be a pine in the ass, but I love it.

Hiking really Alps clear my mind.

What did you say? I lost my terrain of thought!

I like sticking to the backcountry rivers, because they’re less mainstream.

Photography Gear for Your Mountain and Hiking Adventures

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In 1873, John Muir wrote to his sister, “The mountains are calling, and I must go.” Chris and I definitely feel the pull of the mountains. We seek out hikes wherever we may be traveling: Switzerland, Tahiti, Italy, or Colorado. In the summer months, you can find us hiking on many weekends in Rocky Mountain National Park.

I love to share my hiking photos on Instagram (follow me @ Just Wander More). The photos are always made better with mountain quotes, hiking quotes, and adventure quotes for Instagram!

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