50 of the Best Trekking Quotes
If travel is an addiction, then trekking is what makes you addicted to it. Here are the best 50 trekking quotes in the hopes to inspire and encourage our friends to turn into outdoor lovers. We know how great it feels to read a good quote and connect with it instantly. Simple words sometimes have the power to put mind in fast gear and motivate it to take some action. This is what trekking quotes do for me. So here are the best 50 trekking quotes that I’ve seen around, and hope that in some way they touch your heart too.
50 of the Best Trekking Quotes
- “Feeling LOW? Go on mountains.”
- “Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity”
― John Muir - “Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can’t fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance.”
― Jack Kerouac - “Within minutes my 115-mile walk through the desert hills becomes a thing apart, a disjunct reality on the far side of a bottomless abyss, immediately beyond physical recollection.
But it’s all still there in my heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure—they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days to come, like a treasure found and then, voluntarily, surrendered. Returned to the mountains with my blessing. It leaves a golden glowing on the mind.”
― Edward Abbey - “There is always an adventure waiting in the woods.”
― Katelyn S. Bolds
- “You need mountains, long staircases don’t make good hikers.” ― Amit Kalantri
- “Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.”
― Robert Macfarlane - “Climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are nought 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 - “My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so.”
― George Mallory - “… where mountains are sacred & where risk & death are constant companions- the Himalayas.”
― Bernadette McDonald
- “I was born to live, in pursuit of the penultimate high.
I am guaranteed a Homeric death, when it’s my time to die.”
― Mekael Shane - “All my life, I have never felt as happy on Earth as when I’m getting closer to the sky.”
― Erhard Loretan - “Climbing a mountain represents a chance to be briefly free oneself of the small concerns of our common lives, to strip off nonessentials, to come down to the core of life itself.” – Sywan Dior
- “If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.” — Raymond Inmon
- “Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.” — Jeffrey Rasley
- “It’s always further than it looks. It’s always taller than it looks. And it’s always harder than it looks.” — The Three Rules of Mountaineering
- “Keep close to Nature’s heart…and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.” — John Muir
- “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” — John Muir
- “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
- “It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” — Sir Edmund Hillary
- “Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.” — Sir Edmund Hillary
- I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.” — Sir Edmund Hillary
- “Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.” — Dag Hammarskjold
- “Climbing is not a spectator sport.” — Mark Wellman
- “Great things are done when [wo]men and mountains meet; This is not done by jostling in the street.” — William Blake
- “Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.” — Barry Finlay
- “In the mountains there are only two grades: You can either do it, or you can’t.” — Rusty Baille
- “In a sense everything that is exists to climb. All evolution is a climbing towards a higher form. Climbing for life as it reaches towards the consciousness, towards the spirit. We have always honored the high places because we sense them to be the homes of gods. In the mountains there is the promise of… something unexplainable. A higher place of awareness, a spirit that soars. So we climb… and in climbing there is more than a metaphor; there is a means of discovery.” — Rob Parker
- “Hiking alone lets me have some time to myself.” — Jamie Luner
- “After a day’s walk everything has twice its usual value.” — George Macauley Trevelyan
“I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.” — G.M. Trevelyan
“A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.”— Paul Dudley White - I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don’t think of anything but the people I care about and the view.
Julian Lennon
- “For life–which is in any way worthy, is like ascending a mountain. When you have climbed to the first shoulder of the hill, you find another rise above you, and yet another peak, and the height to be achieved seems infinity: but you find as you ascend that the air becomes purer and more bracing, that the clouds gather more frequently below than above, that the sun is warmer than before and that you not only get a clearer view of Heaven, but that you gain a wider view of earth, and that your horizon is perpetually growing larger.” ~ Endicott Peabody
- “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
- “Remember that time spent on a rock climb isn’t subtracted from your life span.” ~ Will Niccolls
- “We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.”
― John Muir - “He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.”
― Friedrich Neitszche - “On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche - “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 - “Each stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own soul in the plants and the animals and the birds of the field.”
– Paulo Coelho - “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 - “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. They keep me continuously wanting to know more, feel more, see more.”- Victoria Erickson
- “I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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“Nothing substitutes a large apprenticeship, a heap of experiences which converts into the base of intuition.” Doug Scott
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“I’ve climbed with some of the best climbers in the world, more importantly, to me, they are some of the best people in the world. That’s another reason why I climb.” Jim Wickwire
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“The bizarre trend in mountaineers is not the risk they take, but the large degree to which they value life. They are not crazy because they don’t dare, they’re crazy because they do. These people tend to enjoy life to the fullest, laugh the hardest, travel the most, and work the least.” Lisa Morgan
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Skills, strength, endurance, experience, determination and luck, it’s almost everything that need mountaineer to wait a serene old age. The rest of this “almost” is not just the responsibility of the case, coincidence, twists of fate or whatever else we would not have called.” Aleksander Lwow
- “You’re off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So… get on your way!”
― Dr. Seuss - “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. - “Beyond what we wish and what we fear may happen,
we have another life…
as clear and free as a mountain stream.”
– Rumi - “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
What’s your favorite trekking quote?