Landscape Quotes - Page 36

• As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Marine, Volcanoes, Opposites

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4987, Delphi Classics

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• Time is a topological manifold. It is a surface. Events flow across it like water over land and like water flowing over land, when the land is flat, the water becomes reflective and moves slowly. When the landscape becomes disrupted, the water moves faster and chaotic attractors appear and new kinds of activity emerge and out of that new activity, there comes the new states that define the future.

  Terence McKenna

  Moving, Land, Water

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• My hope is that I may bear witness to the fact that there is a great mystery calling to us all, beckoning across the landscape of our history, promising to realize itself and to give real meaning to what is otherwise only the confusion of our lives and our collective past.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Past, Giving

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• 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.

  C. S. Lewis

  Light, Giants, Might

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• Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater and greater richness as the diversity of life increases. The entire landscape comes alive, filled with relationships and relationships within relationships.

  Frank Herbert

  Diversity, Alive, Life Is

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.423, Penguin

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• Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.

  Martha Graham

  Art, Men, Soul

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• They do not signify, these landscapes of the mind, with their shocking instants of awareness. They merely resonate, like the chemistry of lovers, throughout our solitary lives

  Jim Perrin

  Climbing, Solitary Life, Mind

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• There is an infinity of landscape here, caused by the purity of the atmosphere. It has been said that there is a lack of colour. It is not so obvious as the greenness of England, but it is infinitely more varied and more delicate in tone. The landscape is a pinky mauve, a lilac, and the reflection of the sun of the particles of the atmosphere is a warm amber. So I should say our colour scheme is amber and lilac.

  Hans Heysen

  Reflection, Atmosphere, Amber

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• 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.

  Arthur Boyd

  Art, Cutting, Thinking

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• For the Tintin books were my emotional universe. To read them felt quite simply like being loved: in advance and by an entire world of pure possibility, my future. But to write to the author was to reach out for the lover. Even today, the power of reading one remains visceral: each book acts as a form of transportation, not just to the emotional landscape of this first literary love affair but to very specific memories.

  Luke Davies

  Art, Memories, Reading

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• I love Australia passionately. I love our landscape. It's influenced most of my work, really. Almost everything I've written is about the landscape. Trying to find, the sacred, the spiritual in it.

  Peter Sculthorpe

  Spiritual, Art, Australia

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• A pretty girl is better than a plain one. A leg is better than an arm. A bedroom is better than a living room. An arrival is better that a departure. A birth is better than a death. A chase is better than a chat. A dog is better than a landscape. A kitten is better than a dog. A baby is better than a kitten. A kiss is better than a baby. A pratfall is better than anything.

  Preston Sturges

  Girl, Dog, Baby

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes. . . . it was essential that they should keep on going to the country, even though they hated it.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, Nature, Class

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• You can domesticate your body, but you can't domesticate your face - even by having a lift or having your nose bobbed. A face bears the reflection of our nature, which in the beginning is veiled by the attractiveness of youth. But as soon as youth begins to go, everything written on the face starts to come to the surface, and pretty soon it's engraved there. No landscape can equal a human face that's been molded by its own owner.

  Francoise Giroud

  Nature, Reflection, Faces

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• REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Nature, Moles

  Ambrose Bierce (2000). “Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: and Other Stories”, p.18, Penguin

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• There isn't a single person or landscape or subject which doesn't possess some interest, although it may not be immediately apparent. When a painter discovers this hidden treasure, other people are immediately struck by its beauty.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  People, Treasure, May

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• A novel is like a window, open to an infinite landscape.

  Isabel Allende

  Window, Infinite, Novel

  Isabel Allende, William Knowlton Zinsser (1989). “Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small part. Think of the world in these terms, as larger in scale than the human. This is a healthy corrective to the commonplace view that people own the land, which exists to serve their purposes. Think big and live small.

  Barbara Ann Kipfer

  Thinking, Views, Land

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• Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see landscapes which otherwise would remain unknown to us like the landscapes of the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Moon, Views

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• I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.

  Grimes

  Humanity, The End Of The Day, Portraits

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• I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for tens of thousands of years. Having that experience was necessary to my perception of how photography can look at the changes humanity has brought about in the landscape. My work does become a kind of lament.

  Edward Burtynsky

  Photography, Years, Space

  "As nature bleeds, Edward Burtynsky gets the big picture" by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. July 06, 2005.

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• Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It's your move.

  Tony Robbins

  Moving, Opportunity, Player

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Apr 14, 2017

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• Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape

  Kim Stanley

  Cognition, Logic, Geometry

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• Soap operas are such a great way to break-in to the industry. The diminishing landscape of daytime TV means its going to be harder for young talent to get discovered.

  Josh Duhamel

  Mean, Way, Soap

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• The building is absolutely stunning. It is a magnificent and important piece of architecture that contributes greatly to the cultural landscape of Washington. It is one the best designed buildings in D.C. in the last decade.

  Zelda Fichandler

  Important, Pieces, Lasts

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