The water which rises in the mountains is the blood which keeps the mountain in life. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation...even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind. — Leonardo Da Vinci Copy Share Image
Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The first of all single colors is white ... We shall set down white for the representative of light, without which no… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The first of all simple colours is White ... We shall set down White for the representative of light, without which no… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
