“As she gobbled up the miles, big ravines appeared before her, their starving mouths open for the swallow.” — R.J. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning… — Gustav Klimt Copy Share Image
I like big, open, spare landscapes. There's lots of room. Nobody bothers you... I feel as if I can think there. — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Wishes, like painted landscapes, best delight, Whilst distance recommends them to the sight. Plac'd afar off, they beautiful appear: But show their… — Thomas Yalden Copy Share Image
It's been more than a decade since 'The Real World: Philadelphia' aired. I've grown up. My views have evolved, as has the… — Karamo Brown Copy Share Image
While we cry ourselves to sleep, gratitude waits patiently to console and reassure us; there is a landscape larger than the one… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
What I wanted to try and figure out was, okay, in contemporary 21st century life the alienation between the self and the… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I feel like I could write a thousand books about the outdoors and natural history and the landscape. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
The landscape of cinema is not original. Not to say there aren't great movies being made, but it's much easier for studios… — Charlie Hunnam Copy Share Image
The basic change in the landscape since my salad days started with the defensive rediscovery of history and politics by all the… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, the most physically imposing buildings on earth were temples, churches, and mosques. But in the 20th century, new… — Thomas Hauser Copy Share Image
My muse can take the form of a landscape, an era, a style of writing, a piece of music, and, perhaps that… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The Bible is a precious storehouse, and the Magna Charta of a Christian. There he reads of his Heavenly Father's love, and… — John Berridge Copy Share Image
The landscape was clothed in a mild and quiet light, in which the woods and fences checkered and partitioned it with new… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As to scenery (giving my own thought and feeling), while I know the standard claim is that Yosemite, Niagara Falls, the Upper… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage… — Rebecca Solnit 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
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
Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Very early in life, I fell in love with the landscape of the human face, where all the emotional states of life… — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
Burning Man is like one big giant art installation in the middle of starkly beautiful desert landscape, and the attendees are creative… — Tom Anderson Copy Share Image
Man-made things, buildings, boats, etc., we see more decidedly than the other things in a landscape. — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I am very fond of the people, landscape, poetry, music, history and the Guinness. Being there makes me think of my mother… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
Since films and television have staged everything imaginable before it happens, a true event, taking place in the real world, brings to… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Our own GOP machine, the establishment, they who would assemble the political landscape, they're attacking their own front-runner. — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
For me, before I learned how to read I was really interested in story and in landscape and nature. I decided to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“How can you care about the image of a landscape, when you show by your deeds that you don't care for the… — William Morris Copy Share Image
I always see these landscapes in my dreams, and feel happy. I desperately try to transform these dreams into artwork, so that… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
I used to live on a barge - it is incredibly good to write near water. There is an ever-changing landscape, so… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
I think that electronic music mirrors the complexity of "information landscapes." You carry the terrain in your mind. — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Soap operas are such a great way to break-in to the industry. The diminishing landscape of daytime TV means it's going to… — Josh Duhamel Copy Share Image
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