Landscape Quotes - Page 26

• The oversized chairs are white; the walls, covered with occasional landscape paintings, are white; and the plush carpet is the whitest of all. I'm insanely glad I didn't bring a cup of grape juice with me.

  Wendy Mass

  Wall, White, Landscape Painting

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• Darkness has completely descended onto the landscape and I stood up and stretched my arms above my head and I wondered what it would be like if it were a perfect world. Only god knows. And he is dead.

  David Wojnarowicz

  Perfect, Darkness, Would Be

  David Wojnarowicz (2017). “Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration”, p.50, Canongate Books

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• I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words. By beauty, I mean the feeling you have suddenly glimpsed another world, or looked into a portal that reveals a kind of magic or romance out of which the world has been constructed, a feeling there is something more than the mundane, and a reason for our plodding.

  Donald Miller

  Book, Mean, People

  Donald Miller (2010). “Father Fiction: Chapters for a Fatherless Generation”, p.75, Hachette UK

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• He slouched back in his seat, looking tired, and leaned his face on his shoulder to look at me while he played with my hair. He started to hum a song, and then, after a few bars, he sang it. Quietly, sort of half-sung, half-spoken, incredibly gentle. I didn’t catch all the words, but it was about his summer girl. Me. Maybe his forever girl. His yellow eyes were half-lidded as he sang, and in that golden moment, hanging taut in the middle of an icecovered landscape like a single bubble of summer nectar, I could see how my life could be stretched out in front of me.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Summer, Girl, Song

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.248, Scholastic Inc.

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• For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn't know we needed and take us places where we didn't know we didn't want to go. As we stumble through the crazily altered landscape of our lives, we find that God is enjoying our attention as never before.

  Kathleen Norris

  Giving, Grace, Attention

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• Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise.

  Annie Dillard

  Tunnels, Views, Darkness

  "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek". Book by Annie Dillard, books.google.ru. January 1, 2011.

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• The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When one travels abroad, one doesn't so much discover the hidden Wonders of the World, but the hidden wonders of the individuals with whom one is traveling. They may turn out to afford a stirring view, a rather dull landscape, or a terrain so treacherous one finds it's best to forget the entire affair and return home.

  Marisha Pessl

  Home, Views, World

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.280, Penguin

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• A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.

  Michael Pollan

  Garden, Space, Twists

  Michael Pollan (2007). “Second Nature: A Gardener's Education”, p.244, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards. Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain landscapes, persons, beasts, books, rooms, meteorological conditions, fruits. In fact, I insist on it. A letter is like a poem, it leaps into life and shows very clearly the marks, perhaps I should say thumbprints, of an unwilling or unready composer.

  James Salter

  Book, Letters, Lizards

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• He waited while Gilan and Will moved the cloaks experimentally, eyeing each other and studying the unusual colors, seeing how they would blend into the landscape of rock and desert that surrounded Al Shabah. All right, ladies," he said, "if you're finished with the fashion show, let's go meet the Wakir.

  John Flanagan

  Fashion, Rocks, Color

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• Knot the tie and go to work, unknot the tie and go to sleep. I sleep. I dream. I wake. I sing. I get out the hammer and start knocking in the wooden pegs that affix the meaning to the landscape, the inner life to the body, the names to the things. I float too much to wander, like you, in the real world. I envy it but that’s the dealio—you’re a train and I’m a trainstation and when I try to guess your trajectory I end up telling my own story.

  Richard Siken

  Dream, Real, Sleep

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• If I am ever to find these trees meaningful I must have you by the hand. As it is, they stretch dusty fingers into an obscure sky, and the snow looks up like a face dirtied with tears. Should I cry out and see what happens? There could only be a stranger wandering in this landscape, cold, unfortunate, himself frozen fast in wintry eyes.

  Frank O'Hara

  Meaningful, Eye, Hands

  Frank O'Hara (1967). “Meditations in an Emergency”, p.19, Grove Press

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• ...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.

  Jack Kerouac

  Reading, Bumps, Longing

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

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• There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery. It is a thing like the landscape of his dreams; the sort of world he would like to make or in which he would like to wander, the strange flora and fauna, his own secret planet, the sort of thing he likes to think about. This general atmosphere, and pattern or a structure of growth, governs all his creations, however varied.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dream, Men, Thinking

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• The desert could not be claimed or owned — it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given a hundred shifting names before Canterbury existed, long before battles and treaties quilted Europe and the East ... All of us, even those with European homes and children in the distance, wished to remove the clothing of our countries. It was a place of faith. We disappeared into landscape.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Country, Children, Distance

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• We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.

  Simone Weil

  Imagination, Suffering, Ugly

  Simone Weil (1952). “Gravity and Grace”, p.199, U of Nebraska Press

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• The landscape is best described as 'pedestrian hostile.' It's pointless to try to take a walk, so I generally just stay in the room and think about shooting myself in the head.

  David Sedaris

  Thinking, Trying, Shooting

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• summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat;it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.

  Harper Lee

  Summer, Sleep, Color

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Nature, Eye

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.35, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul.

  Martine Leavitt

  Men, Soul, Dies

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• Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.

  Sylvia Plath

  Snow, Cadavers, Kind

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.122, Hamilton Books

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• My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples, some rises and falls. But that's it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I'd loved and been loved, but I had nothing to show. It was a singularly plain, featureless landscape. I felt like I was in a video game. A surrogate Pacman, crunching blindly through a labyrinth of dotted lines. The only certainty was my death.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fall, Games, Labyrinth

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Dance Dance Dance”, p.210, Random House

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• Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket; life would be a very dark and narrow place.

  Isabel Allende

  Reading, Dark, Would Be

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• We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  World, Awareness, Sand

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• Most people, looking back at their childhood, see it as a misty country half-forgotten or only to be remembered through an evocative sound or scent, but some episodes of those short years remain clear and brightly coloured like a landscape seen through the wrong end of a telescope.

  D.E. Stevenson

  Country, Years, People

  D. E. Stevenson (1978). “Listening Valley”

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