John Ruskin Quotes

I have always been fascinated by plants. I have always preferred plants to human beings. They give me an enormous amount of solace.

I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.

There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You can't plan nature; you court her.

Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things.

I've always admired gardens. My father was a great nature lover and would always take me for walks. We lived not too far away from huge rhododendron estates and azalea estates, and when they're in bloom in England, they're just riotous.

I have a deep and pathological obsession with trees and plants.

Trees and flowers are so important. The idea of blooming is the idea of becoming something different.

I'm happier in a garden.

What do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind. We are still being born, and have as yet but a dim vision of sea and land, sun, moon, and stars, and shall not see clearly till after nine days at least.

I appreciate nature as well and everything green.

From perfect grief there need not beWisdom or even memory;One thing then learned remains to me -The woodspurge has a cup of three.

You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

It's hard to talk about it without sounding like a hippie. But trees are really inspiring to me. They're like the masters of the earth.

I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad.

I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.

There is not a sprig of grass that grows uninteresting to me.

A garden is a reflection of you, it's your presence in the world.

One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.

My mother loved to take us on walks in the mountains or the hills and she would point out different species that she identified, both fauna and flora.

I am always more interested in people than plants. Nature doesn't make gardens, people make gardens. And the story of a garden is always the story of a person.

I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.

Woods are rich with biodiversity and, above all, places of trees and light that spangles a thousand greens through the leaves.

Modern man has a very abstract idea of what a wood is. I guess that if you stopped anyone on the street and asked them what a wood actually was, they would see it as a place where big trees grow.