So go ahead, let your mind "wander." Whether you're looking for the perfect social media caption, aย few nature-focused words to include with an outdoorsy gift, or just something to inspire your next adventure, here are 30 of the best wanderlust quotes.ย
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30 of the Best Wanderlust Quotes
General Quotes About Wanderlust
1.ย โA person susceptible to 'wanderlust' is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.โ โ novelist Pico Iyer
2.ย โWandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.โ โย poet and novelist Anatole France
3.ย โNot all those who wander are lost.โย โ J.R.R. Tolkien
4. โAdventure is worthwhile.โย โย Aesop
5.ย โA mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.โย โ scholar Oliver Wendell Holmes
6.ย โBlessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.โ โย actress Lovelle Drachman
7. โTraveling โ it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.โย โ explorer Ibn Battuta
8.ย โIt is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.โย โ Ernest Hemingway
9.ย โThere are far better things ahead than the ones we leave behind.โย โ C.S. Lewis
10.ย โI travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.โ โย Robert Louis Stevenson
11.ย โWe 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.โย โ authorย Jawaharlal Nehru
12. โEarth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more that what we could learn from books.โย โ philanthropist John Lubbock
13.ย โThe world is full of wonderful things you havenโt seen yet. Donโt ever give up on the chance of seeing them.โ โย J.K. Rowling
14.ย โThe key to a wonderful life is to never stop wandering into wonder.โ โย writer and philosopher Suzy Kassem
15.ย โWandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.โ โย French poet and novelistย Anatole France
Best Wanderlust Quotes About National Parks
16.ย โThere is nothing so American as our national parksโฆThe fundamental idea behind the parksโฆ is that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us.โย โ Franklin D. Roosevelt
17.ย โWithin National Parks is room โ glorious room โ room in which to find ourselves, in which to think and hope, to dream and plan, to rest and resolve.โ
โ naturalist Enos Mills
18.ย โThe National Parks are the Declaration of Independence applied to the landscape.โย โ filmmaker Ken Burns
19.ย โI knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.โย โ Ansel Adams
20. "National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst." โ American novelist and environmentalistย Wallace Stegner
Best Wanderlust Quotes About Water
21.ย โWater is the driving force of all nature.โ โ Leonardo da Vinci
22.ย โRivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.โ โ author A. A. Milne
23.ย โIf there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.โ โ natural science writer and anthropologist Loren Eiseley
24. โNothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.โ โ Lao Tzu
25.ย โA lake is a landscapeโs most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earthโs eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.โ โ Henry David Thoreau
Best Wanderlust Quotes About Mountains
26.ย โIt is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.โย โ mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary, one of the first people to ever summit Mount Everest!
27. "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."ย โ John Muir
28.ย โMountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they areย the cathedrals where I practice my religion.โ โ mountaineerย Anatoli Boukreev (who, by the way, successfully summited 10 of the world's 14 mountain peaks above 8,000 meters - 26,000 feet!)
29.ย โBecause in the end, you wonโt remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.โ โย Jack Kerouac
30.ย โHe who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.โ โย Friedrich Nietzsche
Well friends, there you have itย โ 30 awesome, inspirational wanderlust quotes. Which ones are your favorite and which ones are totally new to you? Happy adventuring out there, and stay safe!