Landscape Quotes

873 Landscape quotes by 647 unique authors

The sound of the sea, the curve of a horizon, wind in leaves, the cry of a bird leave manifold impression in us. And suddenly,… — Claude Debussy
The soul of a landscape, the spirits of the elements, the genius of every place will be revealed to a loving view of nature. — Karl Jaspers
Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts, sparked here and there by minor incidents, warmed by new ideas that may smolder for decades.… — Marilyn Ferguson
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration. — Gavin Rossdale
Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to… — Richard Le Gallienne
If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone. — Henry David Thoreau
Experience has proved that there is no difference between a so-called realist painting - of a landscape, for example - and an abstract painting. They… — Gerhard Richter
In 1966 Rolf Edberg wrote "This is mankind's home", "in the narrow borderland between the deathly heat beneath our feet and the coldness of space… — Margot Wallstrom
The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe with which our… — Ronald Reagan
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves. — Derek Walcott
Please join me in applauding the ESA - European Space Agency’s historic efforts with the Rosetta Mission and landing a spacecraft on rotating comet. It… — Stephen Hawking
What I fear and desire most in this world is passion. I fear it because it promises to be spontaneous, out of my control, unnamed,… — Terry Tempest Williams
A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm… — Henri Matisse
The most rapturous delights you have ever had - in the beauty of a landscape, or in the pleasure of food, or in the fulfillment… — Timothy Keller
A bad dream.To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.A bad dream.I… — Sylvia Plath
I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes or landscapes. — Ken Burns
What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory… — Fay Godwin
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… — Henry David Thoreau
I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape. — Willem de Kooning
Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the… — Gary Miller
As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South… — Benjamin Disraeli
Time is a topological manifold. It is a surface. Events flow across it like water over land and like water flowing over land, when the… — Terence McKenna
My hope is that I may bear witness to the fact that there is a great mystery calling to us all, beckoning across the landscape… — Terence McKenna
I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head… — C.S. Lewis
Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater and greater richness… — Frank Herbert

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