Landscape Quotes

Spring and autumn are inconsiderable events in a landscape compared with the shadows of a cloud.

I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head over the next ridge.

Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.

What I wanted to try and figure out was, okay, in contemporary 21st century life the alienation between the self and the land around you or the self and even the urban landscape. You name it.

In the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape.

Relish the fresh landscape of my wound, break rushes and delicate rivulets, drink blood poured on honeyed thigh.

The seeds from Ramanujan's garden have been blowing on the wind and have been sprouting all over the landscape. [On the stimulating effects of Ramanujan's mathematical legacy.]

Every soul has a landscape that changes with the wind that sweeps the sky, with the clouds that return after its rain.

Landscape is the creation of the one God - his sensuous image and revelation, through the investigation of which, by science or its representation by art, men's hearts are lifted toward him.

I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods.

The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others.

You can't transmit a landscape, happily enough.

There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia.

A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape; it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one.

The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood.

Any of the decisions that I made, if one could actually locate a shape or form, were all within a wall, the landscape of music.

The idea is to have no idea. Get lost. Get lost in the landscape.

Dance is the landscape of man's soul.

The landscape of the American West has to be seen to believed and has to be believed to be seen.

landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks only to be contemplated.

I love the whole futuristic landscape of dark, rainy neon, the mix of Eastern and Western cultures and the beautiful shots of the flying cars.

I love New Zealand. It's my favorite place to shoot. It's one of my favorite countries to visit. The people, the food, the landscape, everything about it I love.

If it form the one landscape that we the inconstant ones Are consistently homesick for, this is chiefly Because it dissolves in water.

Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world.

It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.

I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.

Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.

London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.

In the new music landscape, with is the democratization of the internet and music in general, I think it can be a lot more collaborative.

What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and enlarge it and enlarge it until it became like a landscape.

It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wane.

I wanted to contribute to the landscape tradition in art. By now I guess we are comfortable with the thought that man has been everywhere or affected everything in nature.

Many of the poets I most admire have a way of embodying their peculiar obsessions via landscape that can sometimes seem magical.

The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.

I hate not understanding the words, because it kind of squashes the song. It shrinks the visual landscape that you've made for the sounds. And, all of a sudden, the content eclipses things.

If I was whisked away... I think I could put up with anything, except not seeing the Australian landscape. It would be a torture to have it cut off.

Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us

For some reason I seem to absorb the landscape and cultures where I am planted. A State Divided Symphony was inspired by the 150th anniversary of Missouri's entry into the Civil War.

When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.

Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

In a landscape where a 2.8 [demo rating] keeps you on the air, you can maintain that just by treating your fans with respect.

From the air the Mexican landscape looks as if it had been stirred with a giant spoon.

Sometimes, you chase the moment and you can never catch it. Films take so long to make that you can never anticipate what the cultural landscape will be when the film enters the world.

Elvis Presleys' first album had more energy and more enthusiam than any other album at the time - when it was released it just blew everything else out. It changed the whole landscape of music

The landscape for business isn’t changing because of social media, it’s changing because consumer expectations are evolving.

The new social landscape is rich with emotion.

Digital Darinism is already changing the landscape of business.

A beautifully written tale that lives somewhere between landscape and memory, where regret becomes a prison, and a story told often enough becomes truth.

In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle, the absence of markers says something really powerful.