John Green Quotes

Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.

What canst thou see elsewhere which thou canst not see here? Behold the heaven and the earth and all the elements; for of these are all things created.

There are many modes of thinking about the world around us and our place in it. I like to consider all the angles from which we might gain perspective on our amazing universe and the nature of existence.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

There's a bigger universe at hand.

If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there to hear it, it makes no sound.

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

There's always something bigger than you.

You think of floating on a rock in space as so alien, but that's exactly what we're doing.

The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not.

What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. On this conviction the plain man like the philosopher takes his stand,and from it philosophy starts in its study of the universe of mind as well as the universe of nature.

What a glorious title, Nature, a veritable stroke of genius to have hit upon. It is more than a cosmos, more than a universe. It includes the seen as well as the unseen, the possible as well as the actual, Nature and Nature's God, mind and matter. I am lost in admiration of the effulgent blaze of ideas it calls forth.

The universe doesn't allow perfection.

But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.

There are two different conceptions about the nature of the universe: (1) the world as a unity dependent on humanity; (2) the world as a reality independent of the human factor.

If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it is cold, night falls, time passes, forests and multitudes speak, the vast eternal dream hovers over all. Sap and blood, all forms of the multiple reality, actions and ideas, man and humanity, the living and the life, solitudes, cities, religions, diamonds and pearls, dung-hills and charnelhouses, the ebb and flow of beings, the steps of comers and goers, all, all are on Shakespeare and in Shakespeare.

Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose.

All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.

Nature is what you see plus what you think about it.

There is nothing in the universe but matter.

In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

... there are shadows because there are hills.