Landscape Quotes
873 quotes by 647 authors
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My sense is that the most under-appreciated-and perhaps most under-researched-linkages between forests and food security are the roles that forest-based ecosystem services play in underpinning…
— Frances Ford Seymour
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But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before…
— Molly Haskell
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The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.
— Amiri Baraka
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For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces, an event rather than an appearance. These forces can only be tackled by…
— Bridget Riley
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Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a momentum of their…
— Charles A. Reich
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Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and…
— Samuel Griswold Goodrich
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Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered as…
— John Constable
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The most beautiful landscape cannot hold my fascinated attention as much as nature by the seaside and all that is connected with water.
— Lyonel Feininger
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The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view ... The essence…
— Adam Nicolson
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I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in…
— Penelope Lively
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The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday,…
— Truman Capote
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I went through puberty in a theme park. I'm grateful. That place was a landscape to me. I had adventures every day.
— Ryan Gosling
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I have always had, as I know many people have, a singular passion for Australia. I do love the sunburnt country, its ancient landscapes, its…
— Peter Garrett
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I think what drives scientists is this tremendous intellectual adventure - pushing the boundaries of knowledge, walking down a track that nobody has walked down…
— Suzanne Cory
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If a young woman is looking at the landscape of Hollywood, what she sees is almost only challenges.
— Lena Dunham
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What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules &…
— Mark Twain
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To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must…
— Anton Chekhov
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I am honored to be both an active surrogate and a member of the RNC's Hispanic advisory council. The national effort to work seamlessly with…
— Unknown Author
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I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live…
— Ken Burns
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I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.
— Galen Rowell
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