Roger Tory Peterson Quotes

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

Birds are the first and the greatest performers.

Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.

To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

Things that are real are given and received in silence.

By going and coming, a bird weaves its nest.

The greatest mystery of all is reality.

If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

All things that are, are ours. But we must care. For if we do not care, we do not exist. If we do not exist, then there is nothing but blind oblivion. And even oblivion must end someday. Lord, will you grant me just a little time? For the proper balance of things. To return what was given. For the sake of prisoners and the flight of birds. Death took a step backwards. It was impossible to read expression in azrael's features. Death glanced sideways at the servants. Lord, what can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the reaper man?

I'm trying to find out NOT how Nature could be, but how Nature IS.

What thou art, that thou art.

There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.

What is not in nature can never be true.

When I talk of reality, I am always thinking of essentials. Profundity is not located in some remote, inaccessible region. It is rooted in everyday life.

The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.

Nature, or the world, or reality, is what mythology is all about.

The manner in which things exist and take place, constitutes what is called the nature of things; and a careful observation of the nature of things is the sole foundation of all truth.

Form is solidified energy, energy is an expression of the mind, the mind is the covered mirror of Eternity, and Eternity is the Truth, which has thrown off the mask of the mind.

Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

Things aren't different. Things are things.

Truth is no rounder than a horse's eye.

Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.

Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.

Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.