Nature Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

We may call painting the grandchild of nature.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.

— Leonardo da Vinci

A natural action is accomplished in the briefest manner.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Necessity is a guardian in Nature.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Nature alone is the master of true genius.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Water is the driving force of all nature.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Every action done by nature is done in the shortest way.

— Leonardo da Vinci

A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Of several bodies all equally larger and distant, that most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.

— Leonardo da Vinci

In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

— Leonardo da Vinci

There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.

— Leonardo da Vinci

One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of…

— Leonardo da Vinci

... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson,…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I say that the power of vision extends through the visual rays to the surface of non-transparent bodies, while the power possessed…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest…

— Leonardo da Vinci

If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts…

— Leonardo da Vinci

If you are on the side whence the wind is blowing you will see the trees looking much lighter than you would…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Music cannot be called otherwise than the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, a sense second to sight, and…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that among trees of the same kind there would not be found one…

— Leonardo da Vinci

After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of…

— Leonardo da Vinci

All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward,…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Creatures shall be seen on the earth who will always be fighting one another, with the greatest losses and frequent deaths on…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Nature never breaks her own laws.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The painter strives and competes with nature.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The cat is nature's masterpiece.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Water is the driving force in nature.

— Leonardo Da Vinci