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Landscape Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if…
- By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of…
- If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.
- I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I…
- Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape and all surfaces,…
- Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply…
- Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
- A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own…
- The landscape was clothed in a mild and quiet light, in which the woods and fences checkered and partitioned it with new regularity, and rough…
- He is perhaps the sanest man and has the fewest crotchets of any I chance to know; the same yesterday and to-morrow. Of yore we…
More Landscape Quotes
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- Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. — Ansel Adams
- I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. — Luis Barragan
- More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose… — Cecil Beaton
- In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness. — Samuel Beckett
- In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. — Gerald Brenan
- Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. That's because technology and the Internet have transformed… — Nolan Bushnell
- I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist… — David Byrne
- Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and… — Buzz Aldrin
- The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine. — Paul Cezanne
- A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted… — John Ciardi
- Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you. — Isabel Allende