John Ruskin Quotes

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there.

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

Nature is the fountain's head, the source from whence all originality must spring.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Rise' gave me an idea for the rest of the music's concepts. I really thought of the sun when I listened it. So I imagined nature, and the jungle, because the soundtrack is wild. It was a real vision of the sun from the universe and of nature!

I found the poems in the fields And only wrote them down

It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man.

... the natural world is the old river that runs through everything, and I think poets will forever fish along its shores.

How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—

I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.

We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.

Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms.

I have never been happier, more exhilarated, at peace, rested, inspired, and aware of the grandeur of the universe and the greatness of God than when I find myself in a natural setting not much changed from the way He made it.

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

I know it sounds very cliché and not very exciting, but if I'm outdoors - in the wild or the ocean or the forest - it inspires me.

Nature is beautiful, and you are in her bosom. That voice of comfort which speaks in the breezes of morning, may visit your mind, that the delightful influences which the green leaves, the blue sky, the moonbeams and clouds of the evening diffuse over the universe, may in their powers of soul-healing, visit your day visions, is my desire and hope.

I got saved by poetry. And I got saved by the beauty of the world.