Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. John Ruskin on nature
It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. John Ruskin on nature
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. John Ruskin on nature
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. John Ruskin on nature
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. John Ruskin on patience
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil. John Ruskin on peace
To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. John Ruskin on poetry
It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. John Ruskin on poetry
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. John Ruskin on poetry
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. John Ruskin on positive
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition. John Ruskin on power
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. John Ruskin on power
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. John Ruskin on power
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do. John Ruskin on relationship
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. John Ruskin on religion
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. John Ruskin on religion
To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. John Ruskin on religion
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. John Ruskin on science
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. John Ruskin on society
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. John Ruskin on strength