#na

We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#canada #emigrated #i #later #places

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ↗

— John Ruskin

#bad #bad weather #braces #delicious #different

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately. ↗

— John Ruskin

#complicated #difficult #easy #execution #expand

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. ↗

— John Ruskin

#autobiographies #book #deeds #great #great nations

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent. ↗

— John Ruskin

#art #because #call #existent #false

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#destruction #hence #like #mandates #nature

I want to make enough money to buy an island. Something modest, like Australia.
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— Jarod Kintz

#ambitious #australia #delusion #delusional #desire

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. ↗

— John Ruskin

#end #mountains #natural #scenery

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. ↗

— John Ruskin

#cities #dome #hills #him #little

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it? ↗

— John Ruskin

#ask #believe #carver #done #enjoyment