Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.
John RuskinWithout mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained.
John RuskinIn my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon the sensual qualities of form or colour-when I want them I take them either from the sky or from the fields.
John RuskinIt is not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things; and that is just what we now never recognize, but think that we are to do great things by help of iron bars and perspiration. Alas! we shall do nothing that way but lose some pounds of our own weight.
John Ruskin