Nature Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

Nature alone is the master of true genius.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Necessity is a guardian in Nature.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.

— Leonardo da Vinci

We may call painting the grandchild of nature.

— Leonardo da Vinci

A natural action is accomplished in the briefest manner.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.

— Leonardo da Vinci

If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit.

— Leonardo da Vinci

We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— 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

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not…

— 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

O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that there would not be one that resembles another, and not only plants…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Men fight wars and destroy everything around them. The earth should open and swallow them up. He who does not value life…

— Leonardo da Vinci

What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside…

— Leonardo da Vinci

The eye, the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding can most fully and abundantly appreciate the infinite…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“While human ingenuity may devise various inventions to the same ends, it will never devise anything more beautiful, nor more simple, nor…

— 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

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

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

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

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to…

— 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

“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

The cat is nature's masterpiece.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Water is the driving force in nature.

— Leonardo Da Vinci

Nature never breaks her own laws.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The painter strives and competes with nature.

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

Water is the driving force of all nature.

— Leonardo da Vinci