Landscape Quotes - Page 7

• Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it

  Galen

  Artist, Years, People

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• Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.

  Diane Wakoski

  Race, Sometimes, Gender

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• But You know Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her that I look for fame - and all that the warmth of the imagination renders dear to Man.

  John Constable

  Men, Imagination, Mistress

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• Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment.

  Galen Rowell

  Photography, American West, People

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• The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.

  Donna Tartt

  Book, Character, Long

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• The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.

  Brock Yates

  Confused, Confusion, Car

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• What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical.

  Mos Def

  Use, Language, Economy

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• An agricultural landscape produces food but it also provides water, requires biodiversity to underpin soil function, pollination and other useful services, and also has value to society in terms of aesthetics and recreation

  Tim Benton

  Nature, Water, Soil

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• I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Beautiful, Beach, Growing Up

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• My work has the abstraction underneath it all now & what I deliberately set out to do down here, for this is the perfect realistic abstraction in landscape.

  Marsden Hartley

  Perfect, Realistic, Abstraction

  "Marsden Hartley" by Gail R. Scott, Abbeville Publishers, Cross River Press, New York (p. 68), 1988.

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• A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

  John Ciardi

  Change, Ideas, Growth

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• Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape.

  Mervyn Peake

  Wall, Glasses, Great Day

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• Improvising musicians are musical travelers, voyagers. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

  Gary Burton

  Music, Jazz, Wander

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• My sense is that the most under-appreciated-and perhaps most under-researched-linkages between forests and food security are the roles that forest-based ecosystem services play in underpinning sustainable agricultural production. Forests regulate hydrological services including the quantity, quality, and timing of water available for irrigation. Forest-based bats and bees pollinate crops. Forests mitigate impacts of climate change and extreme weather events at the landscape scale.

  Frances Ford Seymour

  Science, Impact, Ecosystems

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• Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic.

  James H. Douglas

  Powerful, Land, Work Ethic

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• Silence was the cure, if only temporarily, silence and geography. But of what was I being cured? I do not know, have never known. I only know the cure. Silence, and no connections except to landscape.

  Mary Cantwell

  Happiness, Silence, Connections

  Mary Cantwell (1995). “Manhattan, When I Was Young”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see is black. You may find that if someone pours water all over you, you are damp and distracted, but not cured of your sadness, the way a fire department can douse a fire but never recover what has been burnt down.

  Daniel Handler

  Sad, Fire, Water

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• Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me, I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell the rich river mud. I feel a sense of tremendous strangeness and wonder at being alive. Wonder of wonders.

  Gautama Buddha

  Hands, Rivers, Smell

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• Without imagination, you live in a small room with the windows closed. Imagination opens the windows and shows us landscapes, horizons that we would not otherwise perceive…I want education to empower people to see possibility.

  Maxine

  Small Rooms, People, Imagination

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• If I were in the government I would have a brigade of policemen assigned to keeping an eye on people who paint landscapes outdoors. Oh, I wouldn't want anyone killed. I'd be satisfied with just a little buckshot to begin with.

  Edgar Degas

  Eye, Government, People

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• The body is like the earth ... as vulnerable to overbuilding, being carved into parcels, cut off, overmined, and shorn of its power as any landscape.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Cutting, Power, Hands

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• I had the landscape in my arms as I painted it. I had the landscape in my mind and shoulder and wrist.

  Helen Frankenthaler

  Mind, Arms, Shoulders

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• I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods.

  Janisse Ray

  Who I Am, Stories, Ache

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• I like big, open, spare landscapes. There's lots of room. Nobody bothers you... I feel as if I can think there.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Thinking, Rooms, Bigs

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• The greater number of landscapes I explored, the more it seemed that they had traits in common and that the essence of each was not its uniqueness but its similarity to others.

  J. B. Jackson

  Essence, Numbers, Soil

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