92 Outdoor Quotes Inspirational to Fuel Your Adventure

"The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see."

- Edward Abbey

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature–the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter."

- Rachel Carson

"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

"The mountains are calling and I must go."

- John Muir

"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

"And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul"

- John Muir

"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more."

- Lord Byron

"We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."

- John Muir

"One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books."

- John Muir

"Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt."

- John Muir

"In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks."

- John Muir

"Look deep into nature and you will understand everything better."

- Albert Einstein

"Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing."

- Barry Finlay

"The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark."

- John Muir

"I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Man did not weave the web of life...he is merely a strand in that web...whatever he does to the web...he does to himself."

- Chief Seattle

"The sun shines not on us but in us."

- John Muir

"I am glad that I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?"

- Aldo Leopold

"Take only memories, leave only footprints."

- Chief Seattle

"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves."

- Edmund Hillary

"The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain he is inspired by it."

- William Arthur Ward

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

- John Muir

"None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild."

- John Muir

"Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life."

- John Muir

"A man does not climb a mountain without bringing some of it away with him, and leaving something of himself upon it."

- Sir Martin Conway

"The world begins where the road ends."

- Eddie Vedder

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Forget not that the Earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

- Kahlil Gibran

"The Wilderness holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask."

- Nancy Wynne Newhall

"Nature contains that spirit and power which we can witness but not weigh, inwardly conceive but not comprehend, love but not limit, imagine, but neither define nor describe."

- T. E. Lawrence

"Let Nature be your teacher."

- William Wordsworth

"We must teach our children to smell the earth, to taste the rain, to touch the wind, to see things grow, to hear the sun rise and night fall – to care."

- John Cleal

"Not all those who wander are lost."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."

- Margaret Atwood

"To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug."

- Helen Keller

"We don't stop hiking because we grow old – we grow old because we stop hiking."

- Finis Mitchel

"There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing."

- Sir Ranulph Fiennes

"Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Let a slight snow come and cover the earth, and the tracks of men will show how little the woods and fields are frequented."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory."

- Ed Viesturs

"The beauty of the natural world lies in the details."

- Natalie Angier

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

- Robert Frost

"I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it."

- Rosalia de Castro

"An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Do not look to the ground for your next step; greatness lies with those who look to the horizon."

- Norwegian proverb

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do then by the ones you did do."

- Mark Twain

"The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, What good is it? If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering."

- Aldo Leopold

"Remember what Bilbo used to say: 'It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Children still need a childhood with dirt, mud, puddles, trees, sticks and tadpoles"

- Brooke Hampton

"Encourage your child to have muddy, grassy or sandy feet by the end of each day, that's the childhood they deserve."

- Penny Whitehouse

"Nature is a tool to get children to experience not just the wider world, but themselves."

- Stephen Moss

"If you only do what others have already done, you will only feel what others have already felt. However, if you choose to achieve something that no one has ever done, then you will have a satisfaction that no one else has ever had."

- Edmund Hillary

"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do."

- Willa Cather

"Dreams are not made to put us to sleep, but to awaken us."

- Ed Viesturs

"The city has a face, the country a soul."

- Jacques de Lacretelle

"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

"Encouraging a child to go outside in all weather builds resilience, but more importantly it saves them from spending their life merely tolerating the 'bad' days in favour of a handful of 'good' ones – a life of endless expectations and conditions where happiness hinges on sunshine."

- Nicolette Sowder

"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."

- Henry David Thoreau

"The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have."

- Reinhold Messner

"People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things."

- Edmund Hillary

"To raise a nature-bonded child is to raise a rebel, a dreamer, an innovator… someone who will walk their own verdant, winding path."

- Nicolette Sowder

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

- Maya Angelou

"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list."

- Susan Sontag

"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."

- Lao Tzu

"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after."

- Henry David Thoreau

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

- Marcel Proust

"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."

- Bruce Lee

"Children cannot bounce off the walls if we take away the walls"

- Erin Kenny

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see"

- Henry David Thoreau

"How many things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?"

- Robert Frost

"Only he who has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep."

- Chinese Proverb

"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see."

- G.K. Chesterton

"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling."

- Margaret Lee Runbeck

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page."

- Saint Augustine

"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow."

- Lin Yutang

"Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going."

- Paul Theroux

"When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all of your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money."

- Susan Heller

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."

- Mark Twain

"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home."

- James Michener

"It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent."

- Dave Barry

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."

- Edward Abbey

"Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business."

- Dave Barry

"I love nature, I just don't want to get any of it on me."

- Woody Allen

"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open."