Sky is the part of creation in which Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her.
John RuskinIt is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.
John RuskinThe man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive.
John Ruskin