Leonardo da Vinci Quotes About Earth
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We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.
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The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.
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The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.
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The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.
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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.
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The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.
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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.
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The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.
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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.
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... 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.
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Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated.
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