A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.
John RuskinThe truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.
John RuskinThe fact of our deriving constant pleasure from whatever is a type or semblance of divine attributes, and from nothing but that which is so, is the most glorious of all that can be demonstrated of human nature; it not only sets a great gulf of specific separation between us and the lower animals, but it seems a promise of a communion ultimately deep, close, and conscious, with the Being whose darkened manifestations we here feebly and unthinkingly delight in.
John Ruskin