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Leonardo da Vinci Quotes about Nature

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

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

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

Water is the driving force of all nature.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nature, Reality, Water

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”

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)

The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nature, Travel, Eye

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

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)

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

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 alone is the master of true genius.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nature, Genius, Masters

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

Every action done by nature is done in the shortest way.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nature, Done, Way

Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “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

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nature, Science, Law

Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.51, eKitap Projesi

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

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

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".

Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never discover any inventions more beautiful, more simple or more practical than those of nature, because in her inventions there is nothing lacking and nothing superfluous; and she makes use of no counterpoise when she constructs the limbs of animals in such a way as to correspond to the motion of their bodies, but she puts into them the soul of the body.

Leonardo da Vinci

Beautiful, Nature, Science

Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.971, Delphi Classics

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nature, Mistress, Guides

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

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

Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nature, Causes, Produce

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

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

... 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

If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck; and on meeting other waves they never intercept each other's course... In a small pond one and the same stroke gives birth to many motions of advance and recoil.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nature, Travel, Giving

Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.23, 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

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