Landscape Quotes - Page 5

• Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild
  Mingled in harmony on Nature's face,
  Ascend our rocky mountains. Let thy foot
  Fail not with weariness, for on their tops
  The beauty and the majesty of earth,
  Spread wide beneath, shall make thee to forget
  The steep and toilsome way.

  William C. Bryant

  Feet, Lovely, Mountain

  William Cullen Bryant, “Monument Mountain”

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• What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Emotional, People, Photographer

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• Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community.

  Michael Pollan

  Community, Kind, Environment

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.133, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Engineering, Cities

  Arthur Erickson's Address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

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• One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.

  Patrick Stewart

  Kings, Irritation, Years

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• Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Writing, Mind

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• You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work of art-sculpture or painting-forces your eye.

  Clement Greenberg

  Art, Eye, Sculpture

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• The rocks are not so close akin to us as the soil; they are one more remove from us; but they lie back of all, and are the final source of all. ... Time, geologic time, looks out at us from the rocks as from no other objects in the landscape.

  John Burroughs

  Lying, Science, Rocks

  John Burroughs (1924). “Under the apple trees”

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• The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

  Leonard Cohen

  Depression, Depressing, Psychics

  The International Herald Tribune, November 4, 1988.

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• Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

  John Hurt

  Character, Light, Darkness

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• Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

  Derek Walcott

  Beauty, Surprise, Natural

  Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.68, Macmillan

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• Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience; to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder upon it, and dwell upon it.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Home, Men, Giving

  N. Scott Momaday (1976). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.83, UNM Press

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• Stop destroying the landscape with your outfit.

  Rick Owens

  Destroying

  "Is Rick Owens the new Karl Lagerfeld?" by Rachel Holmes, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2009.

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• I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.

  Arthur Boyd

  Stress, Metaphysical, Australian

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• There has been much talk referencing what I consider conceptual reports like the Landscape of Choice and documents created as a result of the Great Valley Center.

  Alan Autry

  Eugenics, Choices, Valleys

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

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• Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.

  George Takei

  Gun, Wire, Would Be

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

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• I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement. Towns and cities, too, which always retain the ghost of their earlier incarnations beneath today's concrete and glass.

  Penelope Lively

  Science, Glasses, Cities

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• It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due.

  Robert Sheckley

  Oregon, Ibiza, Years

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• Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book.

  Helen Dunmore

  Book, Doors, Mourning

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• Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.

  Alice Hoffman

  Dark, Thinking, Magic Realism

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• When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things.

  John Irving

  Notebook, Writing, School

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• I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit...

  Edmund White

  Book, Thinking, Perfect

  "A Conversation with Edmond White By Edmond White". www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1996.

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• In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.

  Thomas Keneally

  Australia, Catholic, Way

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• Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.

  Rick Larsen

  Easter, Play, Middle East

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• We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape.

  Fritz Todt

  Character

  "Vortrag in der Leipzig-Hochschule am 6.2.1934", Die Autobahn, 4/1934, p. 125, 1934.

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