Description Quote by Anthony Trollope

I have come to see the nonsense of trying to describe fine scenery.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real,

— Jan Brett

The far northern scenery is absolutely desolate but is marvelously beautiful, and I shall never regret that I have seen it, even though it…

— Robert Bunsen

“Of course, any map of the Place would be shocking to anyone with any understanding of geography. As you can see, this is a…

— Elizabeth Knox

It's simply a very romantic place. Just one look at any of those streets, and you couldn't be anywhere else - it's so beautiful,…

— Julia Child

There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

— Ian Frazier

One place that I looked at a lot from space and which looks alluring is New Zealand, especially the North Island. It's a big…

— Chris Hadfield

I really only write about inner landscapes and most people don't see them, because they see practically nothing within, because they think that because…

— Thomas Bernhard

I genuinely find it difficult to think of places that I'd never want to see again. It might be because part of my career…

— Jonathan Meades

“But the essence of a place, the part of it that picks you up and puts you down somewhere else, cannot be given to…

— Frances Mayes

It is interesting sometimes to stop and think and wonder what the place you are currently at used to be like in times past,…

— Patrick Geddes