148 Amazing Mountain Captions and Quotes for Adventure Seekers

1. “Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So… get on your way!” — Dr. Seuss

2. “You are not in the mountains. The mountains are in you.” — John Muir

3. “The sea tells you everything will be fine. The mountains tell you it doesn’t matter anyway.” — Adeel Ahmed Khan

4. “It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” — Sir Edmund Hillary

5. “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

6. “How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!” — John Muir

7. “People are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home, that wilderness is a necessity.” — John Muir

8. “Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.” — Jeffrey Rasley

9. “Kid, you’ll move mountains!” — Dr. Seuss

10. “The mountains are calling and I must go.” — John Muir

11. “Always be thankful for the little things… even the smallest mountains can hide the most breathtaking views!”

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

13. “One day, the mountain that is in front of you will be so far behind you, it will barely be visible in the distance. But the person you become in learning to get over it? That will stay with you forever. And that is the point of the mountain.” —Brianna Wiest

14. “How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!” — John Muir

15. “We are now in the mountains and they are in us.” — John Muir

16. “The beauty of the place moved me; I loved how the clean air felt in my lungs, how far I was from everything I had ever known. People I’d hurt, people I’d failed, people who thought me a monster. Here there was no monster greater than the ragged mountains.” — Rachel Hartman

17. “Take time to leave cities, at least once in a year, and go to some natural place, hills, sea, jungles, rivers, where you see nothing but nature… His creations. Where you only hear chirping of birds, clinkering of trees, murmuring of winds, splashes of water in the river, and uproar of waterfalls.” — Girdhar Joshi

18. “That’s what mountains do, they taunt you, lure you to the freedom of the wilderness, and it is fucking exhilarating.” — Shannon M Mullen

19. “Forget about the money for a moment. Lose yourself in the wilderness, listen to the music of the softly blowing winds, feel the rain on your bare skin, let the mountains take the burden off your shoulders.” — Kiran Bisht

20. “Come with me to the mountains. Every rock there tells a story.” — Avijeet Das

21. “I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.”  – Brian Andrea

22. “Within and around the earth, within and around the hills, within and around the mountains your authority returns to you.” — Joan Halifax

23. “Mountains make me believe that nothing can be bigger than nature, not even human ego.” — Jay Kumar Singh

24. “I love to escape to wild places – forests, mountains rivers or the sea. If that’s not possible, I flee into books; vicarious travel is rejuvenating.” — Jane Wilson-Howarth

25. “She asked him ‘What do you do when you feel alone and lonely? And he said ‘I talk to the mountains!'” — Avijeet Das

26. “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

27. “A man rising above the clouds says goodbye to the mind he had while under the clouds, because now he has a different view of the world and a new mind!” — Mehmet Murat ildan

28. “I need some mountain time.”

29. “Give water enough time and it will carve a tunnel through the thickest mountain.” — Marty Rubin

30. “Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.” — Robert Macfarlane

31. “You have to conquer every obstacle, before you can reach the top of the mountain.” — Lailah Gifty Akita

32. “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. The sun is round. I ring with life, and the mountains ring, and when I can hear it, there is a ringing that we share.” — Peter Matthiessen

33. “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

34. “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

35. “I am just a mountain girl at heart.”

36. “On a date with mountains.”

37. “At the tippy top of the mountain.”

38. “All I need is a mountain breeze and tall trees.

39. “Conquering this mountain one step at a time.”

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

41. “She will move mountains.”

42. “No single mountain ever came to me… so I always go to them” – Erik Tanghe

43. “You can’t move mountains by whispering at them.” — Pink

44. “Coffee, Mountains, Adventure.”

45. “Everything is better in the mountains.”

46. “I learn something every time I go into the mountains.” — Michael Kennedy

47. “Made for the mountains.”

48. “The sun shines brightest from the peaks of mountains.”

49. “Feeling LOW? Go to mountains.” — Prajakta Mhadnak

50. “Whenever I see a mountain, I remember God is still alive!” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

51. “God’s gift to the world are the Trees, Sun, and Mountains.” — Roland R Kemler

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

53. “Mountains terrify me – they just sit about; they are so proud.” — Sylvia Plat

54. “The mountains are my happy place.”

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

56. “There is no wifi on a mountain, but I promise you will find a better connection.”

57. “Sometimes, you just need to change your altitude.”

58. “This is in mount condition.”

59. “Life’s a mountain, not a beach.”

60. “Mount your blessings.”

61. “You don’t have to move mountains. Simply fall in love with life. Be a tornado of happiness, gratitude, and acceptance. you will change the world by being a warm, kind-hearted human being.” — Anita Krizzan

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

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

64. “The farthest mountain is the one you think you can never reach and it may even be just by the side of you!” — Mehmet Murat

65. “Mountains teach that not everything in this world can be rationally explained.” — Aleksander Lwow

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

67. “Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.” — John C. Maxwell

68. “The only mountain in your way is you.” – Intrepid Scout

69. “Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.” — Reinhold Messner

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

71. “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

72. “Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the glaciers and the harsh crags above them. This was the alpenglow, to me the most impressive of all the terrestrial manifestations of God.” — John Muir

73. “Of course there are limits. Every mountain has a peak. The beauty of this life is that there are many mountains to climb and new limits to reach.” — Nate Hamon

74. “Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.”

75. “Be like the sun who fell in love with the moon and shared all his light. Be like the moon who became a lighthouse to guide others in the night. Be like the mountains who were once hills that wanted to kiss the sky.” — Kamand Kojouri

76. “You’ll never learn how to move mountains as long as you’re satisfied scraping tops off molehills.” — T.F. Tenney

77. “I am happy out here. Messy hair, muddy boots, and wild water on my skin. Out here, this is where I belong!” — Brooke Hampton

78. “Mostly the restless people of the valleys climb the tough peaks of the mountains! The rest, the peaceful ones always stay in the valleys! Adventure is the invention of restless minds!” — Mehmet Murat ildan

79. “And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing red pours its tinge upon earth’s shore. These mountains, which have seen untold sunrises, long to thunder praise but stand reverent, silent so that man’s weak praise should be given God’s attention.” — Donald Miller

80. “Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence.” — Hermann Buhl

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

82. “Nothing lives long, Only the earth and mountains.” — Dee Brown

83. “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

84. “So this was what a mountain was like, the same as a person: the more you know, the less you fear.” — Wu Ming-Yi

85. “We were going home. The mountains might seem hostile to some people, but they were a shelter and a blessing for me. I lived in their shadows. As they have strength to my ancestors long ago, they gave strength to me now.” — Florence Cope Bush

86. “A sense of solemn aspiration comes upon us as we view the mountain. We are uplifted. The entire scale of being is raised. Our outlook on life seems all at once to have been heightened. And not only is there this sense of elevation: we seem purified also. Meanness, pettiness, paltriness seem to shrink away abashed at the sight of that radiant purity.” — Francis Younghusband

87. “There are far better things ahead than the ones we leave behind.” — C.S. Lewis

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

89. “I like the mountains because they make me feel small,’ Jeff says. ‘They help me sort out what’s important in life.” — Mark Obmascik

90. “It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” — Edmund Hillary

91. “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

92. “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. I produce nothing but words; I consumer nothing but food, a little propane, a little firewood. By being utterly useless in the calculations of the culture at large I become useful, at last, to myself.” — Philip Connors

93. “Climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are naught without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste; look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end.” — Edward Whymper

94. “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

95. “Accidents on big mountains happen when people’s ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.” — Bear Grylls

96. “I’m primarily concerned with what happens inside a person when they encounter the mountains. When you climb a mountain, you come back down as a different person. We don’t change the mountain by climbing it; we ourselves change.” — Reinhold Messner

97. “On climbs, there is a general way we manage fear. We look at things objectively, separating out perceived risk from real risk. You can really bring down the level of fear by knowing the real risks and setting aside the others. You also know that panicking just makes things worse.” — Jimmy Chin

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

99. “Explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space.” — Edward Abbey

100. “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

101. “I face death, rather than avoid it. I climb anyway. Somehow I manage to handle the comings and goings of partners and loved ones. I pay homage, but I also move on. I don’t know about whatever might come with death. Little by little I understand what it is that comes before: the life we are all living through right now. I see how easy it is to die in those beautiful places. I have lost many friends to the loveliness and horror of ice and stone walls. I still cry for them, for myself. The beauty of the high places is tempered by threat and danger. I remember the struggles won and lost up there. Every situation in life has its black side. Every human being on this planet would love to make that side go away. Wishing it away, ignoring the danger and the consequences, they can make believe it no longer exists. I refuse this option.” — Mark Twight

102. “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

103. “Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.” — John Ruskin

104. “It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.” — William Arthur Ward

105. “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

106. “Dear Mountains, I think about you all the time.” 

107. “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

108. “The mountain has left me feeling renewed, more content and positive than I’ve been for weeks, as if something has been given back after a long absence, as if my eyes have opened once again. For this time at least, I’ve let myself be rooted in the unshakable sanity of the senses, spared my mind the burden of too much thinking, turned myself outward to experience the world and inward to savor the pleasures it has given me.” — Richard Nelson

109. “Great things are done when men and mountains meet.” — William Blake

110. “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

111. “You need mountains, long staircases don’t make good hikers.” — Amit Kalantri

112. “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

113. “Only mountains can feel the frozen warmth of the sun through snow’s gentle caress on their peaks.” — Munia Khan

114. “Wherever we go in the mountains, we find more than we seek.” — John Muir

115. “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

116. “Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more that what we could learn from books.” — John Lubbock

117. “Technology hasn’t got all the answers, and sometimes – just sometimes – what is needed is spirituality, time and some good mountain air.” — Jane Wilson-Howarth

118. “Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.” — Anne Lamott

119. “I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my spirits are rising. To walk in nature is always good medicine.” — Jean Craighead George

120. “Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.” — Julia Louis-Dreyfus

121. “There is something in the mountain air that is not found in the forest air: The spirit of the heights!” — Mehmet Murat ildan

122. “But until then, and right now, the sun is bright, the air is cool, my head is clear, there’s a whole day ahead of us, we’re almost to the mountains, it’s a good day to be alive. It’s this thinner air that does it. You always feel like this when you start getting into higher altitudes.” — Robert M. Pirsig

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

124. “When faced with a large project, remember you move a mountain one stone at a time.” — Catherine Pulsifer

125. “If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You can go around it. You can dig under it. You can fly over it. You can blow it up. You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there. You can turn around and go back the way you came. Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home.” — Vera Nazarian

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

127. “The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.” — Jeanne Moreau

128. “Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.” — Edmund Hillary

129. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” — T.S. Eliot

130. “It isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.” — Muhammad Ali

131. “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

132. “If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles live, we are taking a chance. If we visit the desert or climb a mountain or enter a swamp where snakes have managed to survive, we are taking a chance.” — Peter Benchley

133. “It’s important to know that words don’t move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.” — Danilo Dolci

134. “Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” — Steve Jobs

135. “I have climbed my mountain, but I must still live my life.” — Tenzing Norgay

136. “You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself.” — Jim Whittaker

137. “The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.” — Robert M. Pirsig

138. “Never more at peace than on a mountain.”

139. “In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.” —  Robert Green

140. “Once, men and women were able to turn themselves into eagles and fly immense distances. They communed with rivers and mountains and received wisdom from them. They felt the turning of the stars inside their own minds.” — Susanna Clarke

141. “The farthest mountain is the one you think you can never reach and it may even be just by the side of you!” — Mehmet Murat ildan

142. “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

143. “My happiness is found on the mountains.”

144. “Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.” — William Shakespeare

145. “The mountains are where I feel most at peace.”

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

147. “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.” — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

148. “I wanted to live how I really wanted, even if that meant turning against what everyone I knew was doing. I didn’t want to be close to the action or save on rent by sharing space anymore. I wanted to live somewhere with quiet views of the mountains, surrounded by nature and with plenty of time to sit, read, write and think.” — Lucy Fuggle