Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth. — 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
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
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
There are, indeed, two forms of discontent: one laborious, the other indolent and complaining. We respect the man of laborious desire, but… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The word "Blue" does not mean the sensation caused by a gentian on the human eye; but it means the power of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Color is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again,… — 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
If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
All real and wholesome enjoyments possible to people have been just as possible to them since first they were made of 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
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
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
The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone as in the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into… — 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 Image
Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
