I always feel a sense of marvel when in a desert. Seeing the dunes stretch into the distance with the shifting sand. Hearing the deep silence. Watching the bright stars. We have scoured the internet for the best desert captions for all your desert photos.
So whether you are heading out into the desert, made your first set of footprints on a dune, finding the small signs of life or just enjoying the moment you will find the perfect captions about deserts here.
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Desert Captions for Instagram
Here are our favorite desert captions. Scroll through and find your favorite.
Peace, love, and desert dust
Sand is my favorite color
Wanderlust and desert dust
Where the sky and sand meet
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Somehow, the stars are just better out here
If I have ever seen magic, it has been in the desert
Take only memories, leave only footprints
Into the desert I go to lose my mind and find my soul
Indulging in desert therapy
I’ll never desert you
Serving you just deserts
The desert prickles my fancy
Let us get lost in desert dust and wanderlust
Desert hair, don’t care
Windows down, wind through my hair, desert dust in my shoes
There’s no WiFi in the desert, but I’m definitely going to find a better connection out here
Blue and orange of sand and sky
Catch me under the stars
OK Mother Nature, you didn’t need to flex that hard
Just a girl dreaming of the desert
Into the desert I go
Born to explore the desert
Follow me to the desert
We’re going on a desert adventure
The vastness of the desert
Good, clean fun — in the sand
Ridin’ these dunes
I love the desert…even though it gives me the hump sometimes
Aloe my little friend
Ready to make tracks in the sand
Soaking up the sun in the desert
The desert is my therapy
Take me to the desert
The desert: lands of the shifting borders
Keep calm and take a trip to the desert
Cactus, sunshine, and desert life
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Surrounded by desert
Short Captions About Deserts
Sometimes short and sweet is the way to go and these short desert captions will be perfect for those times.
Desert dreaming
Wandering dunes
Shifting sands
Neverending dunes
Into the dunes
Desert hearts
Lost in the desert
Dune riding
Desert therapy
Desert shadows
Desert Puns and Funny Captions
If you like puns you’ll love these desert puns.
I’ll never desert you
Been there, dune that
All jokes about deserts fall under dry humor
How are you dune?
If you are going to a desert, make sure your pack has a thirst-aid kit
Having a fan-cactus day in the desert
Are we dune yet?
Pretty fly for a cacti
Serving you just deserts
The desert prickles my fancy
The desert sun is brilliant. It has over five thousand degrees!
I love the desert…even though it gives me the hump sometimes
Aloe my little friend
Talk to the sand
Sand everywhere is a sign you had a really a successful desert safari
Sand is my favorite color
It is a new day….It is time to get…back on the camel
Taking a safari to the dunes
Always taking the scenic route through the dunes
Peace, love, and desert dust
I was born to explore the desert
Never met a desert sunset I didn’t like
Good, clean fun — in the sand
Camel trips do not begin or end, they merely change form
Sand Dune Captions
There is something tranquil, immense and somewhat intimidating about sand dunes. Here are some great sand dune captions for your next sand dune pic.
Life takes you down many paths, but the simplest ones end in the sand
Feelin’ sandy
Walking the sand line
I might have sand everywhere
An eternity of dunes
Sand dune sunsets
Keep calm and walk through sand
Nothing soothes like sifting sand dunes
Ready to get sand all over everything
Absolute calm on the sand dunes
A camel’s favorite coffee order is de-calf-inated
Camels usually have deserts after a full meal
What does a camel use to hide itself? “Camel”flauge
A baby camel’s favorite nursery rhyme is ‘Humpty Dumpty.’
A sad camel that cries should actually be called a humpback wail
The camel sank to the ground because it is the ship of the desert
That camel is great at hiding. He’s a real camel-leon!
Most camels usually drink Camelmile tea for better sleep at night
“If Camels are the ship of the dessert, this one is the Titanic” – Karl Pilkington
“I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.” – Joe E. Lewis
“A camel is a horse designed by committee.” – Alec Issigonis
“The difference between camels and men; a camel can work a week and not drink; a man can drink a week and not work.” – Julian Tuwim
“Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid” – Dave Barry
“A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.” – Jackie Kennedy
“A camel that always moves with the camel caravan cannot discover the beauties of the unknown oases!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
“It is a curious fact that camels walk more quickly and straighter to the sound of singing.” – Rosita Forbes
Pretty fly for a cacti
A cactus is just a really aggressive cucumber
Looking sharp
Having a fan-cactus day in the desert
Be a cactus in a world of delicate flowers
Life is like a cactus, full of pricks, but also very beautiful
A cactus is just a really aggressive cucumber
If you were a cactus, I’d endure all the pain just to hug you
Life is like a desert. You only regret the oasis you let pass.
Is that a mirage or oasis?
I don’t want any shade unless I’m beneath a palm tree
Wild and free, like a palm tree
Take me to the palm trees
Keep cool, palm, and collected
Always look life’s oasis
All I need is a palm tree and a cool breeze
Happiness is found under a palm tree
Heading toward the oasis
Leave your worries under the palm trees
Short Desert Quotes for Instagram
These short desert quotes for Instagram will work perfectly as captions for your next desert post. Check out our full list of Desert Quotes.
“Once again there was the desert, and that only.” ― Stephen King
“Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert.” – Frank Herbert
“The desert mocked the map-makers.” ― Dean F. Wilson
“A rose in a desert can only survive on its strength, not its beauty.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
“A night spent in the desert means a night spent in the space!” ― Mehmet Murat Ildan
“The desert surrounds your every step and you walk forever a thirsty man.” – Christopher Pike
“A desert is a place without expectation.“ – Nadine Gordimer
“The desert mocked the map-makers.” ― Dean F. Wilson
“Anything less than the desert was a dream.” ― Kameron Hurley
“Deserts never believe in cactus. seeds so.” ― Deepak Gupta
“In the desert of the heart, tears do not touch the ground.” ― Charles de Leusse
“I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space.” — Robyn Davidson
“And the desert shall reclaim, its wealth!” ― Danikelii
“You can‘t fight the desert. You have to ride with it.“ – Louis L’Amour
“In the desert, the line between life and death is sharp and quick.” – Brian Herbert
“If you spend enough time in the desert, you will hear it speak.” ― Nnedi Okorafo
“The sand has rules. Fucked up rules, but rules nonetheless.” ― Kameron Hurley
“To see the desert is like peeling the skin off a landscape.” – Fred Williams
“The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it.“ – Robert Edison Fulton Jr.
“The desert’s an old dream of the sea.” ― Holly Ringland
“I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.” -Anakin Skywalker
“Even in the most barren desert one would still feel one’s heart beating.” ― Marty Rubin
“It is better to make an irrational noise in a bush than in a desert.” ― Duop Chak Wuol
“The desert works constantly to forbid it, and still the cactus blooms.“
“Sadly, it’s much easier to create a desert than a forest.” – James Lovelock
“When you escape to a desert, the silence shouts in your ear.” – Graham Greene
“In the empire of the desert, water is the king and shadow is the queen.” ― Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Without music, life is a journey through a desert.” – Pat Conroy
“If you want water, do not go to a desert.” ― Alen Sargsyan
“The sand doesn’t care if you’re made of flesh or stone.” ― Joaquin Lowe
“Like water in the desert is wisdom to the soul.” – Edward Counsel
“The magic of the desert is hard to define.” – Henno Martin
“True understanding lies beyond the desert” ― Bangambiki Habyarimana
“A desert is a place without expectation.” – Nadine Gordimer
“Water is a desert’s gold.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
“The desert lay in wait, more infinite than God, no less remote.” ― Debora Greger
“A desert blessing, an ocean curse.” – John Green
“She laughed, and the desert sang.” – Jerry Spinelli
“In the desert, the only god is a well.” ― Vera Nazarian
“Though one praises all the gods, Birds will not come down to deserts.” ― Miriam Lichtheim
I hope you found the perfect desert caption for your next Instagram post or desert adventure.
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Laynni Locke
Laynni has been sharing her travel adventures and day-to-day life on Routinely Nomadic social media for over 15 years and appreciates the importance of finding the perfect quote or caption to showcase those experiences. Putting her extensive writing and education background to good use, Laynni has become passionate about researching and curating comprehensive lists of all the best quotes and captions for every occasion.
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