I need very little motivation to go out in nature and enjoy a hike but I truly love reading these incredible hiking quotes that remind me of all the great reasons I am obsessed with getting outdoors and climbing mountains. I hope these quotes inspire you to get out more and more.
hiking inspiration quotes
I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than trees- Henry David Thoreau
Once a year go someplace you’ve never been before-Dalai Lama
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing- Helen Keller
There is no wifi in the forest but you will find a better connection
One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things- Henry Miller
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
Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt- John Muir
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going- Beverly Sills
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step- Lao Tzu
Not all those who wander are lost- J.R.R. Tolkien
And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul- John Muir
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go- T. S. Eliot
CLIMBING MOUNTAIN QUOTES
The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters- Conrad Ankie
Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn-climb that mountain- Jack Keroac
Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing-Barry Finlay
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone- Neale Donald Walsch
To aim for the highest point is not the only way to climb a mountain-Nan Shepard
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves- Sir Edmund Hillary
After climbing a great hill, one only finds there are many more hills to climb
Nelson Mandela
The mountains are calling, and I must go- John Muir
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it- Andy Rooney
Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb-Greg Child
You are not in the mountains, the mountains are in you- John Muir
The climb speaks to our character, but the view, I think, to our souls- Lori Lansens
NATURE QUOTES
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time- Katrina Mayer
Nature is not a place to visit. It is home- Gary Snyder
If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere- Vincent Van Gogh
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it-Jules Renard
Get lost in nature and you will find yourself
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is a society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar
I love not man the less but Nature more.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better- Albert Einstein
Choose only one master-nature- Rembrandt
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health- Henry David Thoreau
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous- Aristotle
ABOUT THE JOURNEY TRAVEL QUOTES
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware- Martin Buber
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes-Marcel Proust
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore-Andre Gide
Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world-Gustave Flaubert
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving-Lao Tzu
If you can’t fly, then run.
If you can’t run, then walk.
If you can’t walk, then crawl,
but by all means, keep moving.
Martin Luther King Jr.
It is good to have an end to the journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end-Ernest Hemingway
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to travel well than to arrive- Buddha
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us-J.R.R. Tolkien
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by- Robert Frost
