Landscape Quotes

873 Landscape quotes by 647 unique authors

The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I was a writer… — Isak Dinesen
Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and… — Rebecca Solnit
Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and the soles of… — Robert Macfarlane
The Bible is like a wide and beautiful landscape seen afar off, dim and confused; but a good telescope will bring it near, and spread… — Thomas Chalmers
I have always had a love for American geography, and especially for the landscapes of the South. One of my pleasures has been to drive… — Willie Morris
Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the… — Antonya Nelson
Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as… — Fernand Braudel
PR is a mix of journalism, psychology, and lawyering - it's an ever-changing and always interesting landscape. — Unknown Author
One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and… — Patrick Stewart
Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life. — Marianne Williamson
The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events… — J. G. Ballard
I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers. — Janet Echelman
People are satisfied with making minor upgrades and tweaking things here and there - as long as that's the landscape, it will keep on happening.… — Hideo Kojima
I have been manipulated, and I have in turn manipulated others, by recording their response to suffering and misery. So there is guilt in every… — Don McCullin
Living wisdom cannot be confined within words, but it can be hinted at through situations, much as a specific feature of an otherwise undistinguished landscape… — Robert Svoboda
The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground. — Samuel Johnson
No, we don't accomplish our love in a single year as the flowers do; an immemorial sap flows up through our arms when we love.… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable pleasure, though I… — Anton Chekhov
When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an… — Madame de Stael
Although it is tempting to think of these natural landscapes as reflecting a stability in climactic and geologic forces, long periods of climactic and geophysical… — David Holmgren
Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain… — James Salter
New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York… — Adam Savage
It is comforting that travel should have an architecture, and that it is possible to contribute a few stones to it, although the traveller is… — Claudio Magris
Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals, so that unlike them, he is not… — Jacob Bronowski
I spend as much time as I can sketching from nature, Dartmoor contains such a rich variety of landscape, as many boulders, foaming rivers and… — Alan Lee

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