If you are looking for the best hiking quotes for Instagram. You have found it!
Personally hiking is one of my hobbies and I do them quite often even when I am traveling. I also post regularly on my Instagram about solo travel, hikes, and everything in between. So I have an extensive list of quotes about hiking Instagram captions that are perfect for your hiking and travel photos. Now you just need special shoes to take some hiking shots and add any of these hiking captions. I hope it’s helpful and let’s begin with-
Funny hiking quotes
Some women want diamonds… others just want a hammock, a campfire, and some peace & quiet. – Unknown
If the winter is too cold and the summer is too hot, you are not a hiker. – A bitter hiker
Sleeping bags are the soft tacos of the bear world. – Bears
A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger. – Edward Abbey
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.
Bring a compass. It’s awkward when you have to eat your friends.
Over the mountains & through the woods, down the river & up the valley, over the boulders & through the stream to nobody’s house I go.
I’d rather be hiking in the rain, than sitting inside at a desk on a sunny day.
I have a therapist. Her name Is nature.
Happiness does have a smell.
There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.
Do more things that make you forget to check your phone.
Hiking is the answer. Who cares what the question is.
Serious hiking quotes
The hardest climb brings the best view.
Realize better climbers than you’ve failed in it. Realize worse climbers than you’ve made it.
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.
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
There is no wifi in the forest, but you will find a better connection.
My goal is to build a life I don’t need a vacation from.
It feels good to be lost in the right direction.
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.
I can’t understand why men make all this fuss about Everest — it’s only a mountain.” – Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Everest
Not all classrooms have four walls.
Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me the truth.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau
Nature is where it’s at.
Mountains are calling and I must go.
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You’re on your own.
And you know what you know.
And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go.”
— Dr. Seuss / Oh the Places You Will Go
Everyone needs someone who will call and say, ‘Get dressed. We’re going on an adventure. – Unknown
Not all girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice… some girls are made of adventure and wine and all things fine.
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
Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory. – Ed Viesturs
Mountains teach that not everything in this world can be rationally explained – Aleksander Lwow
When preparing to climb a mountain – pack a light heart. – Dan May
I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was. — Stanley Kunitz
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference. — Robert Fulghum
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes “sight-seeing. – Daniel J. Boorstin
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. – Hilaire Belloc
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. – Paul Theroux
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime. – Mark Twain
A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. — Moslih Eddin Saadi
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.— Pat Conroy
Hitler didn’t travel. Stalin didn’t travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn’t want to have their orthodoxy challenged. — Howard Gardner
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin
Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” — Peter Hoeg
The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton
Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli
I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. – David Rockefeller
The tragedy in the lives of most of us is that we go through life walking down a high-walled lane with people of our own kind, the same economic situation, the same national background and education, and religious outlook. And beyond those walls, all humanity lies, unknown and unseen, and untouched by our restricted and impoverished lives. — Florence Luscomb
Learn to detach … Don’t cling to things, because everything is impermanent … But detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate fully.—Mitch Albom
Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station. —Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life’s recollections.– Augustus Hare
People who don’t travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what’s in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live. – Martin Yan
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Bonus Travel Quotes
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is, at last, to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.– G.K. Chesterton
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad.— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. — Ben Hecht
There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark. They light the way for humankind.— Hannah Senesh
Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.— Walter Lippmann
Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. — Ray Bradbury
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasantest sensations in the world.
Travel teaches tolerance. – Benjamin Disraeli
In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away. — T.S. Eliot
Imagine there’s no country, / It isn’t hard to do. / Nothing to kill or die for, / And no religion, too. / Imagine all the people / Living life in peace. — John Lennon
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller
The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people, you meet on them. – Amelia E. Barr
A journey is like marriage. A certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. – John Steinbeck
Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.” – Anne Sophie Swetchine
Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. – Seneca
Would you please tell me, which way I ought to go from here?
That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the cat. I don’t much care where … said Alice. Then it doesn’t matter which way you go, said the cat. Lewis Carroll
Then you’re trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now own you. Chuck Palahniuk
I see too plainly custom forms us all. Our thoughts, our morals, and our most fixed beliefs, are consequences of our place of birth.— Aaron Hill
I’d rather die of thirst than drink from the cup of mediocrity. —Stella
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharal Nehru
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These are such great quotes! I recently started hiking, and I’ve been wanting to share my experiences on Instagram, but I wasn’t sure what to say in my captions. Love it.
These are some really great quotes for Instagram captions. My sister is a hiker and loves posting. I will share this with her.
These are really nice quotes.I found some funny quotes as well.The first picture is amazing!
I miss hiking as I haven’t done in a few years. I need to start back up as I do enjoy it. These are all great quotes!
I keep a small folder of travel quotes as I have serious wanderlust all the time but I haven’t come across some of these. I’m not much of a hiker but can definitely appreciate them and it did give me a bit of a chuckle. Love the photo of you at The Neck on Bruny Island!
These are beautiful quotes and will definitely be using some of these once I have a new hiking adventure.
I agree with the hardest climb brings the best view. Sometimes you have to put in a bit of work to make it worth it.
I love hikes and take them when I can. can’t wait to go on one of them soon and use these quotes for the grma 😀