John Ruskin (1819-1900)
“Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.”
“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. ”
“Remember that the most beautiful things in life are often the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.”
"I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth."
"Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery."
"The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight."
"There is no climate, no place, and scarcely an hour, in which nature does not exhibit color which no mortal effort can imitate or approach. For all our artificial pigments are,even when seen under the same circumstances, dead and lightless beside her living color; nature exhibits her hues under an intensity of sunlight which trebles their
brilliancy."
"I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature,
than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw."
"It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every
star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within
us."
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