Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts, sparked here and there by minor incidents, warmed by new ideas that may… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Now, wilderness can be seen as a useful fiction, a fiction constructed by John Muir and his heirs and deployed to keep… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
If left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“What do we do with mountains? For us who have lived most of our lives on monotonous level ground, mountains give indelible… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
I can tell that the Greater Yellowstone from the Tetons, to the Lamar Valley where wolves howl and grizzlies roam, acts as… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I suspect that you, like I once did, are picturing the Arctic as one endless Pingu landscape of flat ice, broken only… — Alexander Armstrong Copy Share Image
... landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works; they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“Only the top floors of the tallest skyscrapers pierce the otherwise featureless landscape, some of the buildings sit at bizarre angles, as… — B.D. Messick Copy Share Image
Still photographs often differ from life more by their silence than by the immobility of their subjects. Landscape pictures tend to converge… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
More than 500 million years ago, vision became the primary driving force of evolution's 'big bang', the Cambrian Explosion, which resulted in… — Fei-Fei Li Copy Share Image
The rocks are not so close akin to us as the soil; they are one more remove from us; but they lie… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments...Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
To everything there is a bright side and a dark side; and I hold it to be unwise, unphilosophic, unkind to others,… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
The plane as an object has been a huge effort to make. It is a sculpture, a technological invention, a piece of… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
When working abroad you work pretty hard, but with time off, this is the greatest job in the world. You drive. You… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to New England because that's where my roots are, and I miss it. I come from many generations of New… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“Your memory creates postcard images, but it doesn't really comprehend the world at all. That's why a landscape is so affected by… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the Impressionists simplified the landscape in terms of… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
In earlier days, even as a child, the beauty of landscapes was quite clear to me. A background for the soul's moods.… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
I was drawn to the ethos of WP, which believes in building a strong and reasonable opposition that contributes to our political… — Nicole Seah Copy Share Image
As soon as I knew we were going to be doing tribute episodes, and as soon as I knew the landscape of… — James Roday Copy Share Image
I’d spent my whole life waiting to awake on an ordinary morning in the town that was destined to be my home,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
It's important to let everybody understand where people are at in the movie, in the sense of the landscape. You need people… — Ti West Copy Share Image
In my time in the U.S. Senate, I tried to craft an energy policy... I will be part of President Obama's efforts… — Ken Salazar Copy Share Image
“It is the landscape that draws me and keeps me here, concurrently spare and breathtaking enough to empty my mind of chatter… — Liz Stephens Copy Share Image
I can only wonder what astronauts must feel like or something like that when you're really in the space of silence and… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I find the Romantic period extraordinarily interesting. My landscapes have connections with Romanticism: at times I feel a real desire for, an… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Ever-busy, ever-building, ever-in-motion, ever-throwing-out the old for the new, we have hardly paused to think about what we are so busy building,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
In a painting no one complains that the subject is posed, but everybody complains about what looks posed in a photograph. Except,… — John Loengard Copy Share Image
Humans withdraw to their homes, and surrender the night to the creatures that own it: the crickets, the owls, the snakes. A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cross-country running was so beautiful with all the trails and the lake regions ... very physical and also a bit spiritual, where… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people,… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
In most natural scenes there is a prevailing colour, which the landscape painter must learn to identify, and which must prevail also… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
What is the crowning glory of your civilization... the symbol as clear a statement as the pyramids, the Parthenon, the cathedrals? What… — George Nelson Copy Share Image
With newspapers cutting foreign bureaus and budgets shrinking for long-form, investigative journalism, documentary filmmakers are often filling a void nowadays in the… — Matthew Heineman Copy Share Image
