105 Short Instagram Nature Captions for Your Beautiful Photos

Types of Nature Captions on the List

Whether you’re putting on your boots for an early morning hike, loading up camping gear for a trip, or heading to a local creek with your canoe or kayak in tow, we have a list of picture-perfect nature captions for the photos you’re sure to snap while on your adventures in Mother Nature. We include everything from humorous sayings to reflective quotes for you to share. Enjoy the outdoors and these thoughtful nature captions!

Nature Captions about Getting Outside

• Just trying to *branch* out a bit.
• Where the wild things are (It’s me, I’m the wild thing!)
• I’m just here for the trail mix.
• Caution: Sunsets are prettier IRL than they appear in these photos.
• Real Jungle > Concrete Jungle
• The mountains are calling, and I must go!
• Always take the scenic route.
• Life’s a beach.
• I think nature is my color.
• All my cares go away when I take a walk outside.
• Hike more. Worry less.
• Not all classrooms have four walls.
• My hearts long for soil on my feet and sun on my face.
• I’ve reached more peaks than I can count.
• Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.
• No turning or looking back. The path ahead holds the answers you need.
• Climb every mountain, forge every stream!
• There is a pleasure in the pathless woods.
• Views like this make life even sweeter.
• Another day, another sunset.
• Jump in with all your clothes on!
• Walk more and worry less.
• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
• Breathe in the crisp mountain air. You’ll feel glorious.
• What a Wonderful World!
• The sun shines brightly on my face.

Captions about Nature’s Beauty

• The world isn’t all sunshine and rainbows, but today it was!
• “The antidote to exhaustion isn’t rest. It’s nature.” —Shikoba
• Bloom where you are planted.
• I chose the road less traveled, and now I don’t know where I am.
• “The earth laughs in flowers.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Nature never goes out of style.
• There is beauty around every bend.
• In my happy place.
• Let your canopy be the stars in the sky.
• Free as a bird.
• Life is better with sunshine.
• Standing at the shore is where I must be.
• Breathe deep.
• Don’t avert your eyes.
• This view never gets old.
• Nature at its best!
• Mother Nature has put on a show tonight!
• So many sights. So many sounds. So much divine beauty.
• Sunrise, sunset!
• The sun is smiling on me.
• Keep your eyes open.
• Look closer. Design is everywhere.

Funny Nature Puns

• Does this foliage bring out my eyes?
• When getting off the grid makes the grid.
• Definitely go chasing waterfalls. 10/10 would recommend, no notes
• Peak nature. (Ha!)
• Not all who wander are lost. Except us. We definitely got lost.
• Don’t stop be-leafing.
• Here’s my lumber. Call me maybe.
• May the forest be with you.
• Trails before ales, pines before wines, lakes before cakes.
• I’m waterfalling for you.
• Nature—cheaper than therapy.
• I lichen you very moss.
• The difference between “hill” and “hell” isn’t a fine line.
• Hiking hair, don’t care.

Nature Captions about Feeling Small

• “We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.” —Albert Einstein
• Climb every mountain, forge every stream!
• Where the river meets the sky
• “Men argue. Nature acts.” —Voltaire
• Captivated by the ever-changing beauty
• A perfect night underneath the stars.
• The roar of the ocean fills my whole being.
• This is heaven on earth.
• It’s a big world out there – explore!
• No better way to recharge than outside.
• The call of the wild is loud and true.
• Go to where the wonder is. Go outside.
• In awe of God’s creation.
• Wandering with the wild things.
• Deep canyons and tall trees are my happy place.
• There’s nothing better than feeling small in nature. It’s the best way to instill a fresh sense of awe.
• Get down low. Explore the heights. Change your perspective.
• Forget your troubles and enter the wild.

Notable Quotes for Nature Captions

• “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”
  —Jacques-Yves Cousteau
• “Sunsets are proof that endings can often be beautiful, too.” —Beau Taplin
• “Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” —Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
• “Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.”
  —Walt Whitman
• “Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.” —Langston Hughes
• “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” ―John Muir
• “The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.” —Robert Frost
• “Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”
  —John Ruskin
• “Land really is the best art.” —Andy Warhol
• “Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” —Khalil Gibran
• “There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.” — Lord Byron
• “Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.” — Theodore Roethke
• “For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.” — Martin Luther
• “I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.” — Walt Whitman
• “On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.” — Jules Renard
• “Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?” — Rose Kennedy
• “I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.” — Pablo Neruda
• “Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.” — Michel de Montaigne
• “Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.” — Blaise Pascal
• “The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.” — Galileo Galilei
• “Nature is the art of God.” — Dante Alighieri
• “I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.” — George Washington Carver
• “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” — John Lubbock
• “Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy — your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.” — Annie Leibovitz
• “To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.” — Jane Austen
• “Hiking is just walking where it’s okay to pee.” — Demetri Martin

Janece Maze is Associate Editor at Country Living, where she covers DIY projects, gardening, and travel. When she’s not in the kitchen creating a new recipe with farm fresh ingredients, you can find her on the road heading to a music festival or browsing a local consignment shop.  

Leah Hall is currently a digital producer and writer for Country Living. She is based in Huntsville, Alabama.