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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

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

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

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".

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

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

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

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".

Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by its own choice, not because the centre draws it to itself, but because the other intervening element cannot withstand it.

Leonardo da Vinci
Nature, Travel, Moving
Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.58, OUP Oxford

Of several bodies, all equally large and equally distant, that which is most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest.

Leonardo da Vinci
Nature, Travel, Eye
"Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci".

Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites with the sea.

Leonardo da Vinci
Nature, Travel, Sea
Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.21, OUP Oxford

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

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

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”

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

When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of the trees and the buildings being illuminated by the brightness of the atmosphere which surrounds the objects in such a way that the shadows are few, and these few fade away so that their outline is lost in haze.

Leonardo da Vinci
Nature, Travel, Differences
Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.165, GENERAL PRESS

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