Landscape Quotes

• Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Distance, Life Is Like, Vantage Point

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Looks, Waldo Emerson

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• The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.

  Paul Cezanne

  Thinking, Consciousness

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• Landscape consists in the multiple, overlapping intricacies and forms that exist in a given space at a moment in time.

  Annie Dillard

  Space, Moments, Form

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.139, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Don’t look for new landscapes, use new eyes to see what is already there.

  Gerald Causse

  Eye, Looks, Use

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• Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Life, Stay Strong

  "The Wright Style". Book by Carla Lind, p. 3, 1992.

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• The landscape affects the human psyche - the soul, the body and the innermost contemplations - like music. Every time you feel nature deeper you resonate better with her, finding new elements of balance and freedom.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Music, Soul, Balance

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• The soul of a landscape, the spirits of the elements, the genius of every place will be revealed to a loving view of nature.

  Karl Jaspers

  Views, Soul, Genius

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  The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Spirit, American Landscape, Conditions

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• Works of art are landscapes of the mind.

  Ted Godwin

  Art, Mind, Works Of Art

  Ted Godwin, Luther Pokrant (2002). “The Studio Handbook for Working Artists: A Survival Manual”, p.154, University of Regina Press

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• Landscapes, even when their general type is similar, are capable of as many expressions as the same type of human face, and, without our being able fully to tell why, affect our spirits as we look at them with as many moods and meanings.

  William Hurrell Mallock

  Expression, Faces, Looks

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• If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.

  Agnes Varda

  People, Ifs

  "Agnès Varda: 'Memory is like sand in my hand'" by Richard Williams, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2009.

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• This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand.

  Emmet Gowin

  Photography, Heart, Photographer

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• The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Mind, Natural, Contemplating

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1817). “Elements of criticism [by H. Home].”, p.299

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• Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.

  Virginia Woolf

  Might, Tongue, Language

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.422, Wordsworth Editions

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• When you are with a landscape or a human being where there is no need to speak, but simply to listen, to perceive, to feel.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Needs, Speak, Feels

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• Landscape is history made visible.

  J. B. Jackson

  Made, Visible

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• I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I lie and relie on the earth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lying, Earth, Sincere

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2217, Delphi Classics

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• Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

  Isabel Allende

  Country, Roots, People

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• Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.

  Janet Fitch

  Memories, Dimensions, Fourth

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• All forms of landscape are autobiographical.

  Charles Wright

  Form

  Charles Wright (2014). “Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems”, p.158, Macmillan

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• Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place. For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal

  John Berger

  Struggle, Achievement, Sometimes

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• No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.

  Margaret Atwood

  Knows

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• I like to think of the landscape not as a fixed place but as a path that is unwinding before my eyes, under my feet. To see and know a place is a contemplative act. It means emptying our minds and letting what is there, in all its mulitplicity and endless variety, come in.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Mean, Eye, Thinking

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