Leonardo da Vinci Quotes About Nature

Quotes about: Nature

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  Water is the driving force of all nature.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Reality, Water

• Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Intelligent, Causes

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.8, OUP Oxford

• There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Science, Understanding

  The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Philosophy (p. 64)

• Nature never breaks her own laws.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Law, Religion

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.1153, Delphi Classics

• The eye, the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding can most fully and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of Nature; and the ear is second.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Appreciation, Nature, Hard Work

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.190, OUP Oxford

• Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

• Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Desire, World

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.447, GENERAL PRESS

• Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Artist, Opposites

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

• Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Mother, Nature, Animal

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.60, eKitap Projesi

• Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind... it is the prince of mathematics, and the sciences founded on it are absolutely certain. It has measured the distances and sizes of the stars it has discovered the elements and their location... it has given birth to architecture and to perspective and to the divine art of painting.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Nature, Travel

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.105, OUP Oxford

• O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and ruthless stepmother? I see thy children given into slavery to others without ever receiving any benefit, and in lieu of any reward for the services they have done for them they are repaid by the severest punishments.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Mother, Art, Nature

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1906). “Note Books: Arranged and Rendered Into English, with Introd”

• Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Air, Evil

• To speak of this subject you must... explain the nature of the resistance of the air, in the second the anatomy of the bird and its wings, in the third the method of working the wings in their various movements, in the fourth the power of the wings and the tail when the wings are not being moved and when the wind is favourable to serve as guide in various movements.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Air

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

• Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Believe

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.1150, Delphi Classics

• If you are on the side whence the wind is blowing you will see the trees looking much lighter than you would see them on the other sides; and this is due to the fact that the wind turns up the reverse side of the leaves which in all trees is much whiter than the upper side.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Wind

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.135, OUP Oxford

• Music cannot be called otherwise than the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, a sense second to sight, and her harmony is composed of the union of its proportional parts sounded simultaneously, rising and falling in one or more harmonic rhythms.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Fall

  "The literary works of Leonardo da Vinci".

• The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Giving

  Leonardo (da Vinci), Irma A. Richter, Thereza Wells (2008). “Notebooks”, p.344, Oxford University Press

• A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing one side of a landscape illuminated by the sun, and one overshadowed by clouds, and illuminated only by the diffused light of the atmosphere.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Clouds

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.77, GENERAL PRESS

• Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that among trees of the same kind there would not be found one which nearly resembles another, and not only the plants as a whole, but among their branches, leaves, and fruit, will not be found one which is precisely like another.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Variation

  "The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci".

• In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Nature, Invention

  The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (translation by Edward MacCurdy)

• Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of dark houses. The eye of the spectator sees that part of the face which is in shadow lost in the darkness of the house, and that part of the face which is lit draws its brilliancy from the splendour of the sky. From this intensification of light and shade the face gains greatly in relief and beauty by showing the subtlest shadows in the light part and the subtlest lights in the dark part.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Eye

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.128, OUP Oxford

• What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside over mountains and valleys, if it is not for the beauty of the world of nature?

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Home

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.207, OUP Oxford

• The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the "sensus communis" takes them and considers them.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Eye

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.107, OUP Oxford

• ... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement and connection of the rocks of which the mountains are composed, its cartilage the tufa, and its blood the springs of water.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Spring

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2011). “Da Vinci Notebooks”, p.153, Profile Books

• I say that the power of vision extends through the visual rays to the surface of non-transparent bodies, while the power possessed by these bodies extends to the power of vision.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Vision

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.112, OUP Oxford

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