The sun gives spirit and life to plants and the earth nourishes them… — Leonardo da Vinci · Smartyfair

The sun gives spirit and life to plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.

Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519 · artist · 1400s-1500s ItalyLeonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance genius who painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper while also filling notebooks with inventive sketches of flying machines, anatomy, and engineering ideas centuries ahead of his time.4 quotes

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The sun gives plants life and the earth feeds them water.

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What turned up: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Richter's translation (1883), Botany for Painters and Elements of Landscape Painting; Wikiquote-sourced.
Work: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Richter ed.)
Occasion: 1883 · notes on botany for painters
Sources checked: en.wikiquote.orgChecked using claude-sonnet-5, 21 August 2026Sourced section, cited to Notebooks (1883), Section VIII

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