Landscape Quotes

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away.

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape.

What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.

There has been much talk referencing what I consider conceptual reports like the Landscape of Choice and documents created as a result of the Great Valley Center.

I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.

In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.

I think the future of architecture does not lie so much in continuing to fill up the landscape, as in bringing back life and order to our cities and towns.

Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I'm visiting.

Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.

I am very fond of the people, landscape, poetry, music, history and the Guinness. Being there makes me think of my mother and my grandmother - always sentimental and warm thoughts.

For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .

The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.

It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.

Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape.

On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like strips of matte and glossy ribbon.

Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.

All forms of landscape are autobiographical.

Man-made things, buildings, boats, etc., we see more decidedly than the other things in a landscape.

Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.

I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.

I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.

A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.

It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.

Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth.

The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with it.

I'm very American in the sense of being an explorer. America is filled with people who are interested in exploring landscapes, either external or internal. A westward nation of explorers.

Very early in life, I fell in love with the landscape of the human face, where all the emotional states of life are to be found.

Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement.

We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.

In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm just starting to imagine.

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Support for shelters and transitional living and housing programs is necessary if we are going to change the landscape for homeless boys and girls in America.

One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an old young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell.

All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.

I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers.

What does the earth look like in the places where people commit atrocities? Is there a bad smell, a genius loci, something about the landscape that might incriminate?

Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I'm taking part in a noble tradition.

Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals, so that unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape, he is the shaper of the landscape.

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.

Across the communication landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy.

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.

Improvising musicians are musical travelers, voyagers. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

I've never put myself in the mindset that I'm actually any good at taking pictures, I just love to shoot things that catch my eye, whether it's landscapes or just my kids.

That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.