Quotes by Ruskin, John

There is no wealth but life. >>

The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Ch >>

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to whole >>

Quotations about Cities and City Life

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, >>

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get >>

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on bu >>

I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John