John Burroughs Quotes

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

Facts do not speak.

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

I try not to invent; I try simply to translate the weird language of the natural world. And I'm not into absolute ownership of things.

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.

What I want to do with my filmmaking is help kids experience the truth and wisdom of nature no matter where they are, whether or not they have the opportunity to go to a national park.

It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.

I think a really rich world to live in is where you're thinking in terms of human behavior and human types and not being super literal. In order to see the deeper truth, you need to break out of literal frame of mind.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets truth.

O man, of whatever country you are, and whatever your opinions may be, behold your history, such as I have thought to read it, not in books written by your fellow creatures, who are liars, but in nature, which never lies

You don't know reality until someone makes a fiction of it. Reality needs the completion of fiction.

Reality isn't straightforward or easily accessible.

Nature never uses prime numbers. But mathematicians do.

In the beginning, I was truly trying to take what I felt when I was in a field or in an outdoor space and directly translate it into the music.

I don't write about nature, but I'm definitely very inspired by it.