Sometimes our lives can feel stale, especially when we find ourselves repeating the same routine every day.
When that happens, we like to turn to some of our favorite outdoor quotes by great thinkers, writers, and artists for some inspiration to shake up our routines.
These wise and beautiful quotes have encouraged us to go out and do things: have a picnic outside, go for a walk in the park, visit a tourist attraction, go camping and hiking on the weekend, attend a jazz festival, visit a neighboring city, or hop on a plane to a new country.
They’ve instilled in us important life lessons and much-needed perspective. They’ve also warmed our hearts. And now we want to share them with you.
We organized the quotes into four sections: adventure quotes, travel quotes, nature quotes, and life perspective quotes.
Have a look through the list. We hope you’ll discover something that resonates with you in some way. 🙂
Adventure Quotes
1. “There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it.” – Charlotte Eriksson
2. “Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” – J.K. Rowling
3. “Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.” – Roy T. Bennett
4. “I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.” – Roman Payne
5. “It’s the unknown that draws people.” – E.A. Bucchianeri
6. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. “One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.” – William Feather
8. “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
9. “Ah, the outdoors. I visited that mythical place once.” – Brandon Sanderson
10. “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” – Amelia Earhart
11. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
Travel Quotes
12. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
13. “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors.” – Terry Pratchett
14. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
15. “It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.” – Gustave Flaubert
16. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
17. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain
18. “When we allow ourselves to explore, we discover destinations that were never on our map.” – Amie Kaufman
19. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai
20. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac
21. “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac
22. “The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” – John Muir
23. “The mountains are calling and I must go.” – John Muir
24. “I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?” – Vincent van Gogh
25. “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
26. “I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.” – Emma Goldman
27. “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” – Henry David Thoreau
28. “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” – John Muir
29. “Nature does nothing uselessly.” – Aristotle
30. “Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
31. “There is no better designer than nature.” – Alexander McQueen
32. “He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.” – Henry David Thoreau
33. “How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!” – John Muir
34. “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; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.” – John Muir
35. “The earth has music for those who listen.” – Unknown
36. “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein
37. “He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.” – Socrates
38. “I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day’s work.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
39. “Wilderness is not a luxury but necessity of the human spirit.” – Edward Abbey
40. “All good things are wild and free.” – Henry David Thoreau
41. “Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.” – Vincent van Gogh
42. “But for one’s health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.” – Vincent van Gogh
43. “A flower blossoms for its own joy.” – Oscar Wilde
44. “And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.” – John Muir
45. “No one weaves the exquisite quite like Mother Nature.” – Foster Kinn
46. “Do not complain beneath the stars about the lack of bright spots in your life.” – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
47. “What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?” – Henry David Thoreau
48. “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.” – Rachel Carson
49. “If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” – Vincent van Gogh
Life Perspective Quotes
50. “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.” – Henry David Thoreau
51. “Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.” – Barry Finlay
52. “The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.” – Jack Kerouac
53. “The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.” – Henry David Thoreau
54. “No man is a failure who is enjoying life.” – William Feather
55. “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
