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Quote by John Ruskin
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the s

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. – John Ruskin

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Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. – John Ruskin

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Weather
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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

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Art
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The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most. – John Ruskin

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Color
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Other Quotes from
Sky & Clouds
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…And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich, “Miracles”

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Sky & Clouds

When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Sky & Clouds

Never waste any amount of time doing anything important when there is a sunset outside that you should be sitting under! – C.JoyBellC.

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Sky & Clouds

A few amber clouds floated in the sky without a breath of air to move them. The horizon was of a fine golden tint, changing gradually into a pure apple-green, and from that into the deep blue of the mid-heaven. – Washington Irving, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”

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Sky & Clouds

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I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context. – Joseph Beuys

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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it. – Denis Diderot

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Great love and great achievements involve great risk. – Anon.

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Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. – Khalil Gibran

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