Gotta have it?
"There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration."
John Ruskin said that. He was born in 1819 and died in 1900, the year Elizabeth Goudge was born. He had a great admiration for art and beauty and the natural world - and Elizabeth in her turn admired his work: "partly because he could paint a skyscape in words as it seemed to me that no one else could do."
In a society where celebrities draw our attention to the latest (yet another) shade of lipstick, perhaps we should take notice of the colours in the sky instead? And live the truth of Ruskin's words: that our admiration should really be focused on Life itself, its love and its joys. That's the only wealth.
John Ruskin said that. He was born in 1819 and died in 1900, the year Elizabeth Goudge was born. He had a great admiration for art and beauty and the natural world - and Elizabeth in her turn admired his work: "partly because he could paint a skyscape in words as it seemed to me that no one else could do."
In a society where celebrities draw our attention to the latest (yet another) shade of lipstick, perhaps we should take notice of the colours in the sky instead? And live the truth of Ruskin's words: that our admiration should really be focused on Life itself, its love and its joys. That's the only wealth.
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