Amazing Quotes About Mountains and Clouds

We have scoured the internet to come up with a comprehensive list of best quotes about mountains and clouds. In our opinion, when you are in the mountains clouds can either be your friend or your enemy depending on the day. They may frame the mountain, add some contrast, and provide some shade on a hot day. Or they may cover the mountains and rain on you. Or you may end up above the clouds – which might be my favourite feeling of all. One thing we don’t have mixed opinions on is quotes about clouds and mountains – they always help us describe our photos and provide inspiration.

We quit our jobs over 10 years ago and have been travelling ever since and during that time we make a point of getting into the mountains and enjoying nature at its best whenever we can. Hiking in the mountains is when we really slow down and have time to appreciate the little things like the play of shadows moving across the mountains from the clouds. We have also paired our favourite quotes on mountains and clouds with our favourite mountain photos.

Or if you are looking for other mountain quotes that don’t include clouds we also have lists for:

Sometimes we get back from the mountains with amazing pictures and are at a bit of a loss about what to use for a caption on social media. If that has happened to you as well, we also have a list of the best mountain captions to help you out.

Now here is our list list of the best quotes about mountains and clouds.

The Best Quotes about Mountains and Clouds

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.”

– Edward Abbey

“In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.”

– Robert Green Ingersoll

A lake with yellow trees and mountains behind and the sun peeking through clouds and a quotes about mountains and clouds on top

“Sunlight streamed through grumbling storm clouds that played like tiger kittens around the mountain ridges.”

– Jane Wilson-Howarth

“Two peaks, wonderfully akin and compatible in every way, may rise to the clouds but never witness each other’s majesty because of the space between them.”

– John Shors

“Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like a yon cloud upon the mountain’s summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“God begins to paint the clouds in the eastern sky when the mountains butterflies come flying home”

– Srinidhi.R

“Gazing out from the mountains, the clouds are whiter, the sky is bluer, the air seeping into your lungs is as clear as the water roaring down from the snow, melting on the high peaks. A place where heaven is a little closer.”

– Virginia Alison

“When you stand at the bottom of the mountain and look up at the mountaintop, the path looks hard and stony, and the top is obscured by clouds. But when you reach the top and you look down, you realize that there are a thousand paths that could have brought you to that place.”

– Roz Savage

“Emerald slopes became so tall they touched the clouds, and showers painted diamond waterfalls that sluiced down cliff sides.”

– Victoria Kahler

“among the clouds we shared a cup of tea the mountain and me”

– Meeta Ahluwalia

A tree in front with a layer of clouds below and mountains in the distance with a quotes about mountains and clouds on it

“The Sierra Nevada is five hundred miles of rock put right. Granite freed by glaciers and lifted through clouds where water, frozen and fine, has scraped and washed it into a high country so brilliant it brings light into night.”

– Willard Wyman

“The great Rocky Mountains, softly shaded in gray, were submerged in a sea of fluffy white clouds, feathery wisps enveloping the peaks like a kingdom of the air.”

– Gina Marinello-Sweeney

“Beneath the moon, chilly winds blow through the pines as wisps of clouds arise. So many mountain ridges layer into each other for miles around! The valley stream is quiet and clear — I’m not done with this boundless joy.”

– Peter Levitt

“Sandwiched between the clouds with a layer above and below and the scenery shyly peeping through.”

– Laynni Locke

“While they rested, he searched for landmarks. The mountains they’d walked into were gone, a hazy gray ceiling of storm clouds in their place. It gave him the unsettling feeling of being caught inside a box.”

– Danika Stone

“the light spread, there were long lines of cloud in the sky and presently above them the outline of the snow peaks appeared, cold and hard as if they were made of iron; they turned from black to grey to white while the hills were still in darkness.”

– Rumer Godden

“Clouds come and go, the mountain remains.”

– Meeta Ahluwalia

“There are beautiful clouds below her and there are snow clad mountain peaks emerging from those clouds. The white peaks shining in blue sky among white clouds look like glittering diamonds to her.”

– Ashish Bhardwaj

“In the midst of a thousand clouds and countless waters there is an idle person. By day, he roams the green mountains, at night, he returns to sleep beneath the cliff. Quickly, the seasons pass in serenity, with no worldly bonds. How joyful! What does he depend upon? Quiet, like a large autumn river.”

– Peter Levitt

And there you have it! Our list of the best quotes about mountains and clouds. We hope you found one that fit your photo perfectly.

We tend to stick close to mountains while walking or on a hike. If it is the same for you too you might want to take a look at our lists of the best hiking quotes, hiking captions for Instagram, climbing mountains quotes, funny hiking quotes, funny hiking captions and trekking quotes. Check them out!

We also have other lists of quotes and captions about nature including the sun, waterfalls, sunsets , forests, rivers, lakes, trees, mountains, the sea, sunshine and sunrise.