There's a whole range of words that people use about landscape. Pastoral? Idyll? I can't stand them. — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
What does the earth look like in the places where people commit atrocities? Is there a bad smell, a genius loci, something… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
I hate not understanding the words, because it kind of squashes the song. It shrinks the visual landscape that you've made for… — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Our difficulty is that we have become autistic. We no longer listen to what the Earth, its landscape, its atmospheric phenomena and… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
There are really only two stories the coal industry tells: "Coal keeps the lights on, and by implication, you'll live in medieval,… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern &… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I thought that there could be no revolt against nature. I accepted the landscape without dreaming that, behind, there still prowled large… — Roger Vitrac Copy Share Image
Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is... difficult to… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a… — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
All of us , I believe , carry about in our heads places and landscapes we shall never forget because we have… — Roger Deakin Copy Share Image
“Thomas Merton wrote, “there is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.” There is always an… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“One must not forget that the earth seen from an airplane is more splendid than the earth seen from an automobile. The… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I'm also a sucker for a view. Take me to a high place where I can see the landscape or the stars… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
Everything can inspire me. I know that sounds like a cop-out answer, but I find inspiration in literally just about everything. As… — Josh McDermitt Copy Share Image
“Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
I've gone to Yaddo many times, I've worked at the Rockefeller Foundation's Center for Scholars and Artists in Bellagio. That these are… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Admittedly, we must move ahead with the development of our land resources. Likewise, our technology must be refined. But in the long… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
The through line of the way I like to work, what makes me different, and what I like to do for every… — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry,… — Gary Miller Copy Share Image
The threat landscape continues to expand, while cyber threats are continually becoming more sophisticated. This has convinced organizations to expand their security… — Ken Xie Copy Share Image
The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
In contact with materials, I can see so much more with my hands than I can just with my eyes. I'm a… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
There were instances when high offices like that of the President, Vice-President and even Prime Minister could have been within Kalaignar's reach.… — M. K. Stalin Copy Share Image
I remain an active volunteer in the field of at-risk youth, so I'm pretty familiar with the landscape as it stands now,… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
Mortal City was really influenced by geography. [The song] "The Ocean" is the Pacific Northwest. Southern California and New York also figure… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Our many different cultures notwithstanding, there's something about the holidays that makes the planet communal. Even nations that do not celebrate Christmas… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
Agriculture changes the landscape more than anything else we do. It alters the composition of species. We don't realize it when we… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It is the same among the men and women, as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence, never a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Life on earth is such a good story you cannot afford to miss the beginning... Beneath our superficial differences we are all… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
You pick up a camera because something has been revealed to you in the landscape or in the human-scape. And you have… — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
The individual who fears the criticism of others is no different from the one who seeks their praise. Both are shadow figures,… — Richard Bode Copy Share Image
![“Mortal City was really influenced by geography. [The song] "The Ocean" is the Pacific Northwest. Southern California and New York also figure into songs, and Iowa. "February" is very much about New England. "Mortal City" is Philadelphia. The whole album is this anthropomorphized landscape where…” quote by Dar Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd2/dar-williams-3902_albums_mortal-city-was-really-influenced-by-geo_2547350.jpg)
