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

1.       “Feeling LOW? Go on mountains.”
2.       “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
3.       “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
4.       “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.
5.       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


6. “There is always an adventure waiting in the woods.”
― Katelyn S. Bolds
7. “You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.”
― Amit Kalantri
8. “Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.”
― Robert Macfarlane,
9. “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,
10. “My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so.”
― George Mallory
11. “... where mountains are sacred & where risk & death are constant companions- the Himalayas.”
― Bernadette McDonald,
12. “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

13. “All my life, I have never felt as happy on Earth as when I'm getting closer to the sky.”
― Erhard Loretan
14. “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
15. “If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking.  Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.” — Raymond Inmon
16. “Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.” — Jeffrey Rasley
17. “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
18. “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
19. “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” — John Muir
20. “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
21.  “It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” — Sir Edmund Hillary
22. “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

23. I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.” — Sir Edmund Hillary
24. “Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.” — Dag Hammarskjold
25.  “Climbing is not a spectator sport.” — Mark Wellman
26. “Great things are done when [wo]men and mountains meet; This is not done by jostling in the street.” — William Blake
27. “Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.” — Barry Finlay
28. “In the mountains there are only two grades: You can either do it, or you can’t.” — Rusty Baille
29. “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

30. “Hiking alone lets me have some time to myself.” — Jamie Luner   
31. “After a day’s walk everything has twice its usual value.” — George Macauley Trevelyan
32. “I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.” — G.M. Trevelyan
33. “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
34. 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
35. “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
36. “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
37. “Remember that time spent on a rock climb isn’t subtracted from your life span.” ~ Will Niccolls
38. “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
39. “He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.”
― Friedrich Neitszche
40. “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
41. “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
42. “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

43. “The way up to the top of the mountain is always longer than you think.
44. Don’t fool yourself, the moment will arrive when what seemed so near is still very far.”
— Paulo Coelho
45. “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
46. “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
47. “You’re off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So… get on your way!”
― Dr. Seuss
48. “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.
49. “Beyond what we wish and what we fear may happen,
we have another life…
as clear and free as a mountain stream.”
— Rumi
50. “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?