There are many kinds of revelation. But the most powerful is the vision which transcends the mental boundary between life and non-life,… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro with Renoir’s impressionism. The gloom and shadows of claustrophobic chambers… — Ella Leya Copy Share Image
I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Some people are great at the pure mathematical things - like Bill Gates, he's great at math things. He loves to do… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
It is impossible to describe a landscape so validly as to exclude all other descriptions, for no one can see the landscape… — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
Growing up north of San Francisco, I immersed myself in the local landscape and in books about Native Americans, cowboys, and pioneers… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
One classic American landscape haunts all of American literature. It is a picture of Eden, perceived at the instant of history when… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
One hope no sooner dies in us but another rises up in its stead. We are apt to fancy that we shall… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“The hedges - yes, the hedges, the very synonym of Merry England - are yet there, and long may they remain. Without… — Jefferies Richard 1848-1887 Copy Share Image
The strengths landscape architecture draws from its garden design heritage include: the Vitruvian design tradition of balancing utility, firmness and beauty; use… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
When the ice of winter holds the house in its rigid grip, when curtains are drawn against that vast frozen waste of… — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
It's probably hard for anyone looking at my landscapes today to realize that I was once regarded as a rebel, a dangerous… — A. Y. Jackson Copy Share Image
Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It reflects no great honor on a painter to be able to execute only one thing well -- such as a head,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“In one picture, the pool was half hidden by a fringe of mace- weeds, and the dead willow was leaning across it… — Clark Ashton Smith Copy Share Image
A lot has happened since Dr. King left us. He probably wouldn't recognize the landscape if he saw it, but I still… — Morris Dees Copy Share Image
The landscape of professional creation continues to get more complex. Organizations and platforms of all sorts are vying for a slice of… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
If [hand-drawn animation] is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Where are all the fresco painters… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
It's a beautiful drive across the United States. It's so interesting. I'm a proud Canadian, and there are so many beautiful parts… — David Sutcliffe Copy Share Image
The landscape affects the human psyche - the soul, the body and the innermost contemplations - like music. Every time you feel… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Water, whether still or in motion, has so great an attraction for the lover of nature, that the most beautiful landscape seems… — William Montagu-Pollock Copy Share Image
A world without a proper day of rest is like a landscape without hedgerows, trees, or landmarks: a howling, featureless wilderness in… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
I reckon my fear landscape would be me having to jump out of a plane or having to skydive. I would see… — Keiynan Lonsdale Copy Share Image
Strip away the morphing landscapes and rips in the space-time continuum, and my stories are about things that novels have always been… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
With the right sources of funding and some smart, strategic thinking about how to force non-banks to follow the same rules as… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
When you're driving into D.C. as a young kid and you go over the Key Bridge and see the Lincoln Memorial, Washington… — Thomas Kail Copy Share Image
We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In town and in country there must be landscapes where we can walk in safety, pick fruit, cycle, work, sleep, swim, listen… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
I usually just pick a genre of movie that I feel like saluting and then go off and come up with something… — James Roday Copy Share Image
A deep analysis judges technology morally - from its conception and intention to the totality of its consequences, knowing that all "raw… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
I never wanted to make portraits - to photograph celebrities, beautiful people, beautiful landscapes, beautiful buildings, or people in distressing situations… I… — Ray Metzker Copy Share Image
When it does get below freezing and there is - it's cold enough for ice to form, then that changes the whole… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Just consider the CIA and its effort to suppress the Senate's review of its torture program. Take in the fact that we… — Laura Poitras Copy Share Image
'Cosmos' wouldn't deserve its place in primetime evening network television were it not a landscape on which compelling stories were told. People,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image