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• The West to me is where the landscape is.

  Lee Friedlander

  West

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• I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds.

  J. G. Ballard

  Mind, Feels, Surrealist

  Conversation with George MacBeth, BBC3, February 01, 1967.

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• The English landscape at its finest - such as I saw this morning - possesses a quality that the landscapes of other nations, however more superficially dramatic, inevitably fail to possess. It is, I believe, a quality that will mark out the English landscape to any objective observer as the most deeply satisfying in the world, and this quality is probably best summed up by the term 'greatness.'

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Morning, Believe, Greatness

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2010). “The Remains of the Day”, p.28, Vintage

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• I’d like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Thinking, Today, Chance

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• When the magic hour arrives, my thoughts center on light rather than on the landscape. I search for perfect light, then hunt for something earthbound to match with it.

  Galen Rowell

  Light, Perfect, Magic

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• At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the plashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons.

  Carl Jung

  Animal, Clouds, Tree

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Alive, Speak

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• I think the one overwhelming emotion that we had was when we saw the Earth rising in the distance over the lunar landscape - it makes us realize that we all do exist on one small globe. For from 230,000 miles away, it really is a small planet.

  Frank Borman

  Distance, Thinking, Space

  "And You Think You've Got Problems!" by George Heymont, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2016.

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• Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They determine the way in which we use or squander our energy, time, and land resources.

  Leon Krier

  Spiritual, Reality, Land

  Léon Krier (1998). “Architecture: Choice Or Fate”, p.90, Papadakis Publisher

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• The Italian landscape has always harmonized the vulgar and the Vitruvian: the contorni around the duomo, the portiere'S laundry across the padrone's portone, Supercortemaggiore against the Romanesque apse. Naked children have never played in our fountains, and I. M. Pei will never be happy on Route 66.

  Robert Venturi

  Children, Italian, Naked

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• To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Morning, Sun, Looks

  N. Scott Momaday (1976). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.5, UNM Press

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• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable. If we are to realize and maintain our humanity, we must come to a moral comprehension of earth and air as it is perceived in the long turn of seasons and of years.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Air, Blood, Years

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• There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we return to such places in our minds irresistibly. There are certain villages and towns, mountains and plains that, having seen them walked in them lived in them even for a day, we keep forever in the mind's eye. They become indispensable to our well-being; they define us, and we say, I am who I am because I have been there, or there.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Travel, Memories, Eye

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• It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And, as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Order, History, May

  "The West (The People)". TV Series, September 15, 1996.

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• The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors.

  Stephen Crane

  Army, Fog, Rumor

  Stephen Crane “The Red Badge of Courage”, Lulu.com

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• I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in a contemporary way. I started out trying to create buildings that would sparkle like isolated jewels; now I want them to connect, to form a new kind of landscape, to flow together with contemporary cities and the lives of their peoples.

  Zaha Hadid

  Jewels, Cities, Trying

  "I don't do nice". Interview with Jonathan Glance, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2006.

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• If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Song, Spring, Autumn

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• ...seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of a framework of bone and a network of arteries, the earth's crust is structured in mountain ridges, river, creeks, and gullies.

  Reinhold Messner

  Rivers, Mountain, Body

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• Like many features of a landscape, knowledge looks different from different angles.

  David Bloor

  Different, Looks, Angle

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• A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty. And man needs spiritual expression and nourishing. It's why even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves. Man needs music, literature, and painting-all those oases of perfection that make up art-to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

  Fernando Botero

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Art

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• Hands are the heart's landscape.

  Pope John Paul II

  Heart, Hands

  Catholic Church. Pope (1978-2005 : John Paul II), Pope John Paul II (1979). “John Paul II: The Encyclicals in Everyday Language”

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• Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Book, Reading

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• The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. Thermonuclear weapons systems and soft drink commercials coexist in an overlit realm ruled by advertising and pseudoevents, science and pornography. Over our lives preside the great twin leitmotifs of the 20th century-sex and paranoia.

  J. G. Ballard

  Dream, Sex, Moving

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• We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its orgy of fossil energy consumption, and the Third World its suicidal consumption of landscape. Until such time as Homo Sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along.

  David Graeber

  Suicidal, Energy, Viruses

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• I should like to sleep like a cat, with all the fur of time, with a tongue rough as flint, with the dry sex of fire; and after speaking to no one, stretch myself over the world, over roofs and landscapes, with a passionate desire to hunt the rats in my dreams.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Dream, Sex

  Pablo Neruda, “Cat's Dream”

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