See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.” — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Expression, sentiment, truth to nature, are essential: but all those are not enough. I never care to look at a picture again,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
People are always expecting to get peace in heaven: but you know whatever peace they get there will be ready-made. Whatever making… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation; and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The truths of nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
High art consists neither in altering, nor in improving nature; but in seeking throughout nature for 'whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
All are to be men of genius in their degree,--rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We shall be remembered in history as the most cruel, and therefore the most unwise, generation of men that ever yet troubled… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“It is evident that the chief feeling induced by woody country is one of reverence for its antiquity. There is a quiet… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
In the range of inorganic nature. I doubt if any object can be found more perfectly beautiful than a fresh, deep snowdrift,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
And besides; the problem of land, at its worst, is a bye one; distribute the earth as you will, the principal question… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre… — John Ruskin Copy Share
Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life. — John Ruskin Copy Share
Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows… — John Ruskin Copy Share
As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it. — John Ruskin Copy Share
I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average… — John Ruskin Copy Share
When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants… — John Ruskin Copy Share
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper… — John Ruskin Copy Share
It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an… — John Ruskin Copy Share
“You may trust to the truth of my sympathy; but you must remember that I am engaged in the investigation of enormous religious and… — John Ruskin Copy Share
And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride. — John Ruskin Copy Share
The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because… — John Ruskin Copy Share
Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it… — John Ruskin Copy Share
All are to be men of genius in their degree,--rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear and pure;… — John Ruskin Copy Share
The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just… — John Ruskin Copy Share
