Mountains. Big Skies. Open Spaces. Whether it was the snow-capped peaks, the green forest, whatever shape or form it took, the mountains have been the most enchanting place more than anywhere else.

For the longest time, humankind was made for adventure, exploration and the mountains. Without mountains, we would not be able to wax lyrical about the stars, the skies above us, what’s in the horizon or even learn about who we are.

Standing in front of the mountain, out there in the wild, we make the memories that form us and that’s all thanks to the stories of triumph, sadness, achievement that we have heard about mountains.

The ruggedness and structure of mountains draws your eye in. How cool would it be to be in a place where you are really inspired and create right there?

To get outside, I have put together the best and inspiring mountain quotes and captions that can be used for Instagram or anywhere.

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60 Best Wildly Inspirational Mountain Quotes and Captions

1. “Mountains are not Stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practise my religion.”- Anatoli Boukreev

2. "I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.” - John Muir

3. “Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

4. I'd rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.” - John Muir.

5. "Mountaineering is a lot like hitting yourself in the head with a hammer, you're damn glad when its over, but its an interesting story." - Unknown

6. "Only if you've been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.” - Unknown

7. "If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile." - Emerson

8. “Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.” - John Muir

9. It's always further than it looks. It's always taller than it looks. It's always harder than it looks.” - Unknown

10. "Mountain climbing is long periods of boredom interspersed with a few seconds of sheer terror." - Unknown

11. “But the objective, the people ask, the meaning, the goal? There is no meaning, there is no goal. Mountaineering is as meaningless as life itself - and thus its magic will never die.” - Peter Wessel Zapffe

12. "Beyond the mountains, more mountains.” - a Haitian proverb

This quote speaks to the difficulties of life in their culture, but adopts a different meaning entirely to people who live for the mountains.

13. "The last word always belongs to the mountain.” - Everest movie

14. "Within alpinism's narrow framework we seek transcendence and relentlessly pursue what remains hidden from us on flat ground: our true selves." - Steve House

15. "So, 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. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for.” ― George Leigh Mallory

Quotes like these get to me every time! I could spend a lot of money on food and consuming things but the best experiences that have a multiplier effect are the mountains. I want every person who ever doubted their self-worth and existence to venture outdoors in the mountains and explore it with a sense of wonder that comes with this privilege called confidence and call this a real life.

16. "Those personal values, which we gain from our approach to the mountains, are great enough to enrich our life. Is not the irrationality of its very lack of purpose the deepest argument for climbing?” - Heinrich Harrer

17. "We cannot lower the mountain, therefore we must elevate ourselves" - Todd Skinner

18. “Anyone who has been among mountains knows their indifference, has felt a brief, blazing sense of the world’s disinterest in us. In small measures, this feeling exhilarates. In full form, it annihilates.” - Mountain movie

I vividly remember an experience I had in the mountains where I was struck with the profound feeling of how small and insignificant I am (and we all are). It was a very spiritual feeling and actually brought me to (happy) tears. So my experience seems to fit with the first part of this quote - in small measures it exhilarates. But in full form, it annihilates.

“Anyone who has been among mountains knows their indifference, has felt a brief, blazing sense of the world’s disinterest in us. In small measures, this feeling exhilarates. In full form, it annihilates.” - Mountain movie — “Anyone who has been among mountains knows their indifference, has felt a brief, blazing sense of the world’s disinterest in us. In small measures, this feeling exhilarates. In full form, it annihilates.” **- Mountain movie**

19. “Up in the mountains even our greatest cities, highways, and monuments to ourselves are nothing compared to the vast awesome beauty of a big mountain range.” - Unknown

20. “These mountains were here long before I was born and will be here long after I am gone.” - Unknown

21. “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

“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 — “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**

22. “Mountains slowly change, but they will always be there, defining Freedom.” ― Foster Kinn

23. “What draws us from the low valleys to the high mountains is that noble stance of the summits!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan

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

25. “Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.” - Dag Hammarskjold

26. “Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.” - John Lubbock

27. “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

28. “You don't climb mountains without a team, you don't climb mountains without being fit, you don't climb mountains without being prepared and you don't climb mountains without balancing the risks and rewards. And you never climb a mountain on accident - it has to be intentional.” - Mark Udall

29. “Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.” - Edmund Hillary

30. “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

31. “Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.”— James Dyson

32. “I feel like an old-fashioned mountain climber when I am making discoveries, seeing something for the first time, realizing that no human before me has ever seen what I am seeing. It takes your breath away - for just a moment, you feel a pause in time, as you know you are crossing a boundary into a new realm of knowledge.” — Heidi Hammel

33. “The mountains have rules. They are harsh rules, but they are there, and if you keep to them you are safe. A mountain is not like men. A mountain is sincere. The weapons to conquer it exist inside you, inside your soul.” — Walter Bonatti

34. “He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary” — Friedrich Nietzsche

35. “No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.” — Ansel Adams

36. “I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view.” – Sebastian Thrun

40. Climbing has shown me that I am all those things: strong and weak, brave and cowardly, both immune to and at the mercy of the death of death, all at the same time.” — Steve House

41. “As a professional climber, that’s the question you always get: Why, why, why? It’s an ineffable thing; you can’t describe it.” – Jimmy Chin

42. “Each fresh peak ascended teaches something.” — Sir Martin Conway

43. “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

It is always a new feeling when I am outside. I feel a sense of calm, reassurance and clarity. I am reminded of the love I have for my body which allows me to move, to take me to the top of mountains and countless trails and remote countries. I always wondered if other people were going outdoor because that is where they felt strength and freedom from being able to be present.

“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 — “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**

44. “Having been bred amongst mountains I am always unhappy when in a flat country. Whenever the skirts of the horizon come on a level with myself I feel myself quite uneasy and generally have a headache.” – James Hogg

45. “Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.” – Walt Whitman

46. “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” – John Muir

47. “The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations – each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.” – Ruth Bernhard

48. “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

49. “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.'“ – Alice Walker

50. “The choices we make lead up to actual experiences. It is one thing to decide to climb a mountain. It is quite another to be on top of it.” – Herbert A. Simon

51. “I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.” – Alice Walker

“I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.” – Alice Walker — “I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.” **– Alice Walker**

52. “Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.” – George Bernard Shaw

53. “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

54. “The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.” – Bear Grylls

55. “I learn something every time I go into the mountains.” – Michael Kennedy

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

57. “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

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

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

60. “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

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