Nature Quotes by John Ruskin

“Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.”

— John Ruskin

The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to…

— John Ruskin

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

— John Ruskin

See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.

— John Ruskin

Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth.

— John Ruskin

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

— John Ruskin

The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.

— John Ruskin

Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable.

— John Ruskin

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness…

— John Ruskin

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up…

— John Ruskin

And besides; the problem of land, at its worst, is a bye one; distribute the earth as you will, the principal question…

— John Ruskin

The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this…

— John Ruskin

In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as…

— John Ruskin

Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe…

— John Ruskin

In the range of inorganic nature. I doubt if any object can be found more perfectly beautiful than a fresh, deep snowdrift,…

— John Ruskin

I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort…

— John Ruskin

Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The…

— John Ruskin

We shall be remembered in history as the most cruel, and therefore the most unwise, generation of men that ever yet troubled…

— John Ruskin

The word "Blue" does not mean the sensation caused by a gentian on the human eye; but it means the power of…

— John Ruskin

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

The truths of nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly…

— John Ruskin

God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are…

— John Ruskin

High art consists neither in altering, nor in improving nature; but in seeking throughout nature for 'whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things…

— John Ruskin

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

“It is evident that the chief feeling induced by woody country is one of reverence for its antiquity. There is a quiet…

— John Ruskin

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

— John Ruskin

All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.

— John Ruskin

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

— John Ruskin

“The majesty of nature depends upon the force of the human spirit.”

— John Ruskin

A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.

— John Ruskin

When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our…

— John Ruskin

Expression, sentiment, truth to nature, are essential: but all those are not enough. I never care to look at a picture again,…

— John Ruskin

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

I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may…

— John Ruskin

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that…

— John Ruskin

It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No…

— John Ruskin

The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone as in the…

— John Ruskin

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature…

— John Ruskin

This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but…

— John Ruskin

It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which…

— John Ruskin