Bigs Quote by Ben Quilty

I know that the only reason American landscapes sometimes disappoint me is that, just a century before I was born, the great rivers and…

— John Burnside

Always tell us where we are. And don't just tell us where something is, make it pay off. Use description of landscape to help…

— Janet Fitch

“Where I had expected to appreciate the monuments and love the natural environment, the reality was entirely the reverse. The immense beauty of many…

— Tim Winton

The most beautiful landscapes in the world, if they evoke no memory, if they bear no trace of a remarkable event, are uninteresting compared…

— Madame de Stael

“The winding turns around capes, the unclouded sky, the flower mottled hills existed only as an aspect of waiting. Towns, civilization, meant the possibility…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“I remember reading once how some Stone Age Indians from the Brazilian rain forest with no knowledge or expectation of a world beyond the…

— Bill Bryson

“If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like…

— Jack Kerouac

“Most of the big shore places were closed now. And there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of the ferryboat across…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

To the artist, the forest is an asylum of peace and dancing shadows.

— John F. Carlson

“All landscapes eventually turn to land, the gold of the imagination to the lead of reality”

— V.S. Naipaul

Don't get me wrong, God Bless the farmers and cowboys. It just wasn't the life I wanted. When writing stories of other lands, I…

— Tom Johnson