So go ahead, let your mind "wander." Whether you're looking for the perfect social media caption, a 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.
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30 of the Best Wanderlust Quotes
General Quotes About Wanderlust
1. “A person susceptible to 'wanderlust' is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” – novelist Pico Iyer
2. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – poet and novelist Anatole France
3. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
4. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop
5. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – scholar Oliver Wendell Holmes
6. “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” – actress Lovelle Drachman
7. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – explorer Ibn Battuta
8. “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” – Ernest Hemingway
9. “There are far better things ahead than the ones we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis
10. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
11. “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.” – author Jawaharlal Nehru
12. “Earth 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.” – philanthropist John Lubbock
13. “The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them.” — J.K. Rowling
14. “The key to a wonderful life is to never stop wandering into wonder.” – writer and philosopher Suzy Kassem
15. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – French poet and novelist Anatole France
Best Wanderlust Quotes About National Parks
16. “There is nothing so American as our national parks…The fundamental idea behind the parks… 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.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
17. “Within National Parks is room — glorious room — room in which to find ourselves, in which to think and hope, to dream and plan, to rest and resolve.”
— naturalist Enos Mills
18. “The National Parks are the Declaration of Independence applied to the landscape.” — filmmaker Ken Burns
19. “I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.” — 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." – American novelist and environmentalist Wallace Stegner
Best Wanderlust Quotes About Water
21. “Water is the driving force of all nature.” – Leonardo da Vinci
22. “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” – author A. A. Milne
23. “If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.” — natural science writer and anthropologist Loren Eiseley
24. “Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.” — Lao Tzu
25. “A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.” – Henry David Thoreau
Best Wanderlust Quotes About Mountains
26. “It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” – 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." — John Muir
28. “Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.” – mountaineer Anatoli Boukreev (who, by the way, successfully summited 10 of the world's 14 mountain peaks above 8,000 meters - 26,000 feet!)
29. “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
30. “He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
Well friends, there you have it – 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!
