John Ruskin Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Hurt, Animal

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.415, University of Virginia Press

• He who is not actively kind is cruel!

  John Ruskin

  Animal, Animal Rights, Kind

• There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out and up to our great mystery of command over them, and claims the fellowship of the creature if not of the soul.

  John Ruskin

  Eye, Animal, Light

  John Ruskin (1855). “Notes on Some of the Principal Pictures Exhibited in the Rooms of the Royal Academy, the Old and New Societies of Painters in Water Colours, the Society of British Artists and the French Exhibition”

• The Spirit power begins in directing the Animal power to other than egoistic ends.

  John Ruskin

  Spiritual, Animal, Power

  "Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain".

• Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

  John Ruskin

  Christian, Education, Animal

  John Ruskin (19??). “Works: Deucalion. The king of the Golden River. The eagle's nest. Arrows of the chace”

• The fact of our deriving constant pleasure from whatever is a type or semblance of divine attributes, and from nothing but that which is so, is the most glorious of all that can be demonstrated of human nature; it not only sets a great gulf of specific separation between us and the lower animals, but it seems a promise of a communion ultimately deep, close, and conscious, with the Being whose darkened manifestations we here feebly and unthinkingly delight in.

  John Ruskin

  Animal, Promise, Delight

  John Ruskin (1858). “Modern Painters: (pt.3) Of ideas of beauty”, p.86

• Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal.

  John Ruskin

  Animal, Men, Race

  John Ruskin (1869). “Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation: Of invention formal. Of invention spiritual”, p.276

• Now the basest thought possible concerning man is, that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest misunderstanding of him possible is, that he has, or should have, no animal nature. For his nature is nobly animal, nobly spiritual,--coherently and irrevocably so; neither part of it may, but at its peril, expel, despise, or defy the other.

  John Ruskin

  Spiritual, Animal, Men

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.98, University of Virginia Press

• I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal, but if you think about him carefully, you will find that his nonvulgarity consists in such gentleness as is possible to elephantine nature-not in his insensitive hide, nor in his clumsy foot, but in the way he will lift his foot if a child lies in his way; and in his sensitive trunk, and still more sensitive mind, and capability of pique on points of honor.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Lying, Mean

  John Ruskin (1868). “pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation”, p.278

• Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.

  John Ruskin

  Animal, Men, Lines

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.380

• The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.

  John Ruskin

  Beauty, Animal, Intellectual

  John Ruskin (1849). “Of ideas of beauty”, p.97

• If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.

  John Ruskin

  Flower, Moving, Animal

  John Ruskin, Cook (1905). “Works”

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