Leonardo da Vinci Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Growth, Earth, Flesh

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.395, GENERAL PRESS

• For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Past, Mind

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.442, GENERAL PRESS

• The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Science, Air, Water

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

• The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Perception, Earth, Reason

  Leonardo (da Vinci), Edward McCurdy (1939). “The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci”

• 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

• 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

• ... 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

• The first of all simple colours is White ... We shall set down White for the representative of light, without which no colour can be seen; Yellow for the earth; Green for water; Blue for air; Red for fire; and Black for total darkness.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Fire, Light, Air

  "A Treatise on Painting: the Painting Art".

• Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Men, Hemisphere

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.344, GENERAL PRESS

• The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Bird, Weight, Earth

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

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