There’s nothing like the mountains. Soaring peaks over water and valleys. And when you are looking for the perfect quote for your Instagram post, we are here to help. The following are great mountain captions for Instagram posts. Ones that will both inspire you and others. Many of these Captions are Quotes from Incredible Mountaineers, Leaders, and Environmentalists. So Let these Mountain Quotes Inspire you.
It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp. ― James Ramsey Ullman
In the mountains, there you feel free. ― T. S. Eliot [The Waste Land]
Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. ― Jack Kerouac
Sir Edmund Hillary, Famed Explorer and first man to summit Mount Everest (along with Tenzing Norgay). He’s inspired generations of mountaineers to go forth into the mountains, seek adventure, and exploration.
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it. ― Edmund Hillary
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Edmund Hillary
People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things. ― Edmund Hillary
Life’s a bit like mountaineering; never look down. ― Edmund Hillary
When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. ― Edmund Hillary
I needed to go. The pull [of Everest] was stronger for me than any force on earth. ― Tenzing Norgay
Why climb? Because it’s there. ― George Leigh Mallory [Original: Why climb Mount Everest?]
For every mountain there is a miracle. ― Robert H. Schuller
Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all. ― Ernest Shackleton
Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. ― Richard Nixon
Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So… get on your way. ― Dr. Seuss
Kid, You’ll move Mountains ― Dr. Seuss
The man who does not give up can move mountains. ― Ernest Hello
There’s no goal too far, no mountain too high. ― Wilma Rudolph
We cannot lower the Mountain, therefore we must elevate ourselves. ― Todd Skinner
Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence. ― Hermann Buhl
Each Fresh Peak Ascended teaches something. ― Sir Martin Conway
John Muir, known as the father of National Parks, was a naturalist and early advocate of protecting wildlife. He’s famous for his work on parks and mountains. So much of the America’s protected mountains pay benefit to him. A few of his quotes are below.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine into trees. ― John Muir
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over. ― John Muir
Climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean ― John Muir
Going to the mountains is going home. ― John Muir
Nothing Truly wild is unclean ― John Muir
These mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently ― John Muir
Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing. ― John Muir
One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.” ― John Muir
We are now in the Mountains and they are in Us ― John Muir
All the world seems a church and the Mountains altars. ― John Muir
Wherever we go in the Mountains, or indeed in any of God’s wild fields, we find more than we seek. ― John Muir
Take me into the Mountains ― John Muir
Longing for the Mountains ― John Muir
Mountains speak and Wise Men listen. ― John Muir
The secret of the mountain is that the Mountains simply exist. ― Peter Matthiessen
The mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the freedom for which we were blindly groping and which was as necessary to us as breath. ― Peter Matthiessen
The Mountains are my Happy Place ― Unknown (attributed to various different people)
Go Wild or Go Home ― Unknown
The best view comes after the hardest climb ― Unknown
Go Where you feel most Alive ― Unknown
Mountains are where Heaven meets Earth ― Anita Diamant
Without Great Mountains, We cannot reach Great Heights. ― Richard Paul Evans
There is no such thing as Bad Weather, only Inappropriate Clothing. ― German Proverb
What are men to rocks and mountains? ― Jane Austen [from Pride and Prejudice]
May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. ― Edward Abbey
My altars are the mountains and the ocean. ― Lord Byron
Mountains define you. You cannot define Them ― May Sarton
Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Do you have a favorite quote or one that inspires you? Any you would recommend for the list? Let us know! We’d love to it. Do also let us know if you use any of them on your IG.
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