Landscape Quotes
873 Landscape quotes by 647 unique authors
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Onshore wind turbines are visually a very considerable intrusion on any landscape.
— Tim Yeo
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One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And…
— Winston Churchill
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A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing one side of…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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The hostility of this landscape teaches me how to be quiet and unobtrusive, how to find grace among spiders with a poisonous bite. I sat…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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A few birds flew out from the mountains and glided for a while without sound. Standing out against the sky on high slopes beyond a…
— Cesar Aira
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In town and in country there must be landscapes where we can walk in safety, pick fruit, cycle, work, sleep, swim, listen to the birds,…
— Tom Turner
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Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of…
— Leonard Nimoy
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In the emerging, highly programmed landscape ahead, you will either create the software or you will be the software. It's really that simple: Program, or…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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One of the things I learned on the street was to trust life and to keep hands off of it, and that feeling continues in…
— Joel Meyerowitz
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And so we polish our own lives, creating landscapes and canyons and peaks with the very silt we try to avoid, the dirt we disavow…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on their backs, and…
— Hilary Mantel
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The landscape is a reflection of the inner life. Since I can't shoot the inner life, all I can shoot is the exterior but I…
— Bruno Dumont
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It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't…
— Robert Sheckley
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You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will be…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.
— Marshall McLuhan
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I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods.
— Janisse Ray
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The landscape of my childhood was one of fierce occupation by trees.
— Janisse Ray
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One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an old young writer. Beyond that is the…
— Raymond E. Feist
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I believe there need to be women visual in our every day landscape, working hard and doing their own thing, whether you like it or…
— Margaret Kilgallen
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THE STORIES WE TELL fearlessly explores the textures of the human heart, finding a path toward hope through a Savannah that is jagged with class…
— Joshilyn Jackson
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In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control. Compared to…
— Murray Bookchin
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To read 'Happy Talk' is to crash a party as vivid and surreal as Felini's 8. It's the business of show business, the American dream,…
— Monica Drake
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Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture and agro-forestry in…
— Bill Mollison
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The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro with Renoir’s impressionism. The gloom and shadows of claustrophobic chambers contrasting with the…
— Ella Leya
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You know, a landscape painter's day is delightful. You get up early, at three o'clock in the morning, before sunrise; you go and sit under…
— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Who Wrote These Landscape Quotes
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