On this waterlogged landscape....are scattered palaces and hovels....It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but see it. — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
There's a lot of things, even the landscape that we show in the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody] of Ensenada in Baja is… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
You will say that everyone has seen landscapes and figures from childhood on. The question is: Has everybody also been reflexive as… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the… — Samuel Griswold Goodrich Copy Share Image
When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I love this book! Cathy Malkasian's Percy Gloom swirls with echoes of cartoon landscapes from the past and present. You can almost… — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
If churches around the world would grasp the revolutionary truth that Christ's transforming power always comes through sacrifice and weakness, it would… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
We have a completely unregulated digital landscape. There is almost no oversight. We are placing blind trust in companies like Facebook to… — Christopher Wylie Copy Share Image
There's a whole range of words that people use about landscape. Pastoral? Idyll? I can't stand them. — Alice Oswald 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
“One of the functions of landscape it to correspond to, nurture, and provoke exploration of the landscape of the imagination. Space to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
In 1966 Rolf Edberg wrote "This is mankind's home", "in the narrow borderland between the deathly heat beneath our feet and the… — Margot Wallstrom Copy Share Image
Colorado's majestic landscapes are one of our most valuable assets, and it's important that we work to preserve these treasures. — Michael Bennet Copy Share Image
A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I love the nooks and crannies of the American landscape; the back roads and back alleys, the places that are still untouched… — David Means Copy Share Image
You can have somebody living next door to you and you can live in a completely different world from that person, which… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Set in the remote and harsh high desert landscape of Idaho, Outpost is an artist live/work studio and sculpture garden for making… — Tom Kundig Copy Share Image
When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Of course, it’s true that sometimes the pink at sunrise somehow seems brighter than the pink at sunset, and that when you’re… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
