The line between inner and outer landscapes is breaking down. Earthquakes can result from seismic upheavals within the human mind. The whole… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Long after their associates have gone southward, they linger like the last leaves on the tree. It is indeed "good-bye to summer"… — Neltje Blanchan Copy Share Image
Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting,… — Feist Copy Share Image
To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
In Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, and always beyond… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
There are times when the thing we are seeing changes before our very eyes, and if it is a landscape we praise… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Love makes you see a place differently, just as you hold differently an object that belongs to someone you love. If you… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
There are moments when I can wander through my childhood's landscape, through rooms long ago, remember how they were furnished, where the… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
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… — Frances Ford Seymour Copy Share Image
Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
So the recordings were these immersive landscapes, and yet, unlike the performances that almost no one would see, I had a sense… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
Mr. Assad is not going to be able to feel like there is a moderate opposition that actually threatens him. Currently, the… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
Fiction -- at least for me -- requires long, relatively uninterrupted time stretches in which to bring it to fruition. I've never… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
My picture [A Boat Passing a Lock, 1823-6] is liked at the [Royal] Academy, indeed it forms a decided feature and its… — John Constable Copy Share Image
“As Elizabeth Blackmar and Ray Rosenzweig wrote in their magisterial history of [Central Park in NYC]: 'The issue of demoncratic access to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in going to see films that massively overrepresent men over women. It's lik,e how much more have we got… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
We know how to think. We know how to laugh. We know we're going to die, which gives us a lot to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Could there be a more hilarious sad sack than Duncan Leland, whose trials and tribulations, so wittily conveyed, had me laughing (and… — Mameve Medwed Copy Share Image
In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these… — Ze Frank Copy Share Image
My hope is that I may bear witness to the fact that there is a great mystery calling to us all, beckoning… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The ouster of Jill Abramson as executive editor of 'The New York Times' sent shock waves through the media landscape. Reports that… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
We think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding but find our expressions of faith sowing division; we believe ourselves… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the… — Matthew Barney Copy Share Image
The mark of an educated man is not in his boast that he has built his mountain of facts and has stood… — E. J. Pratt Copy Share Image
My visual landscape as a child was the inside of a lot of these old churches. And the Baroque drama of the… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
It is utterly soothing to fly fish for trout. All other considerations or worries drift away and you couldn't keep them close… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A basic language-literacy of Nature is falling from us. And what is being lost along with this literacy is something perhaps even… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
Experience has proved that there is no difference between a so-called realist painting - of a landscape, for example - and an… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The sound of the sea, the curve of a horizon, wind in leaves, the cry of a bird leave manifold impression in… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
Prairie grassland once covered much of North America's midsection. European settlers turned nearly all of it into farms and ranches, and today… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
No Sierra landscape that I have seen holds anything truly dead or dull, or any trace of what in manufactories is called… — John Muir Copy Share Image
If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
The Europeans governments have massively changed the landscape in Europe. There is no doubt about it. They have put together the European… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
In the context of the great debates about identity politics - are you gay or straight, nationalist or republican, British or English… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
But it is also untrue that I have nothing specific in mind. As with my landscapes: I see countless landscapes, photograph barely… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
From Portland's ban on large, fossil fuel terminals to Oregon's Clean Fuels Standard and the Clean Electricity and Coal Transition Act, our… — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
![“My picture [A Boat Passing a Lock, 1823-6] is liked at the [Royal] Academy, indeed it forms a decided feature and its light can not be put out. Because it is the light of nature - the Mother of all that is valuable in poetry - painting or anything else... my execution annoys most of them and all…” quote by John Constable](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f10/john-constable-11301_academy_my-picture-a-boat-passing-a-lock-1823-6_1324899.jpg)
![“As Elizabeth Blackmar and Ray Rosenzweig wrote in their magisterial history of [Central Park in NYC]: 'The issue of demoncratic access to the park has also been raised by the increasing number of homeless New Yorkers. Poor people--from the 'squatters' of the 1850s to the 'tramps' of the 1870s and…” quote by Rebecca Solnit](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6d2/rebecca-solnit-569_central-park_as-elizabeth-blackmar-and-ray-rosenzweig_2496507.jpg)
