A stuffy Capitol Hill hearing room differs quite a bit from the wide open, rural landscape of Louisa County, Va. — Abigail Spanberger Copy Share Image
There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape.… — George Takei Copy Share Image
I love when architects build a golf course that compliments the landscape rather than intrudes upon it. — Michael Waltrip Copy Share Image
If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place. — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And as I say on occasion, it may have to be… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
“Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. Especially seeing England presents thee with… — W.G. Hoskins Copy Share Image
An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place. — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the central question about [Eliot] Porter's work is about the relationship between science, aesthetics, and environmental politics. His brother, the painter… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
New discoveries and production of resources like shale oil and gas are dramatically altering our energy supply outlook and the entire global… — Fred Upton Copy Share Image
For a while Australians were desperately trying to be cosmopolitan. I think it is a pointless exercise. Australian novels are those rooted… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Time rides with the old At a great pace. As travellers on swift steeds See the near landscape fly and flow behind… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
For me, going back to itinerant landscape painting, it's not about returning to an older method, but about building on what happened… — Cynthia Daignault Copy Share Image
Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long… — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
Gabriel Levin's book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East. What's astonishing and refreshing is his… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
A shan-shui city is a modern city, a high-density urban situation, but we pay more attention to the environment. We bring waterfalls;… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
I'm an African woman, I suppose these thoughts torture me more than they do black American people, because it's like watching my… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
The aggressive incoherence of our common surroundings can be described as entropy made visible. The way we have disposed things on the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit,… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
“It is a pity indeed to travel and not get this essential sense of landscape values. You do not need a sixth… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“Brentwood stands on that fine and wealthy slope of country, one of the richest in Scotland, which lies between the Pentland Hills… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Knowing is a veneer out minds create and lay over the landscape like a painter's drop cloth set upon a forest floor.… — Greg Kramer Copy Share Image
September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational. And such old, old… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate, and not a grain… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I would consider my diary serves the same purpose as going for a walk or a run. They are all physical ways… — Chet Faker Copy Share Image
Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security. — Rick Larsen Copy Share Image
For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'... — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Welcome to Israel, where the beaches are great, the fruit is succulent, the landscape is mesmerizing, and all of it is stolen. — Remi Kanazi Copy Share Image
In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with it. — Alexis Ohanian Copy Share Image
I don't believe too much in originality... you learn art from other art and then looking into somebody's face or landscape is… — Paterson Ewen Copy Share Image
I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There comes a time in every athlete's life, where the scenarios change and the landscape has eroded from what made you fall… — Matt Mitrione Copy Share Image
“History is not a map to be read, nor a path to be followed. It is a landscape of contours and textures,… — Tom Lloyd Copy Share Image
What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape… — Fay Godwin Copy Share Image
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