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
Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
My entire delight was in observing without being myself noticed,- if I could have been invisible, all the better. . . to… — 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
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
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
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. — 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
“It is not that the noble nature loves monotony, any more than it loves darkness or pain. But it can bear with… — 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
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
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
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
The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There is no climate, no place, and scarcely an hour, in which nature does not exhibit color which no mortal effort can… — 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
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
“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
