SAYINGS OF THE SAGES - RUSKIN

John Ruskin, 1819 - 1900, English author and reformer.

"Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven
forever in the works of the world."

John Ruskin was an advocate of truth and morality. Also as an art
critic, he defended the landscape painter, Joseph Turner, who had
been attacked because he had changed his style from imitations of
the old masters to a more personal technique.
He won the Newgate prize for poetry in 185l and wrote "King of
the Golden River." a charming fairy tale. He invested in various
schemes to rescue poor people from the slums by providing land
to help grow their own food. It failed, perhaps because it did not
promote industry.

Thank you John Ruskin for your enlightening thoughts that brings
these words from my "quill."

It's good to think of those who live, And follow beauty's way,
Whose lives of joy and love and warmth, Glow like a sunny ray.
And sends a deep desire within, That waits in soil of time,
To hearken to the Master's voice, And find this peace sublime.

To feel a oneness with all things, All fauna, plants and clans,
And feel these bonds of unity, In line with nature's plan.
And as we move through lands and climes, View nature on our way,
A lovely essence will be found, Through peaceful golden days.

Through willingness to change our ways, New body language learn,
Love's universal song of peace, Life's meaning will discern.
No more need warlords of the Earth, Ransack the world around,
More learning from the centuries old, When love's law is unbound.
Suzie-Q