... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race forever.
John RuskinModern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
John RuskinNot only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.
John RuskinThere is no climate, no place, and scarcely an hour, in which nature does not exhibit color which no mortal effort can imitate or approach. For all our artificial pigments are, even when seen under the same circumstances, dead and lightless beside her living color; nature exhibits her hues under an intensity of sunlight which trebles their brilliancy.
John Ruskin