Landscape Quotes

873 Landscape quotes by 647 unique authors

In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal… — Louise Erdrich
Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their… — Henry Ward Beecher
Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape. — Janet Fitch
The secret of landscapes isn't creation...It's maintenance. — Michael Dolan
To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all. — Christopher Tunnard
Designing a landscape is about connecting the body, soul and mind to the land itself. — Unknown Author
Playing Augusta is like playing a Salvador Dali landscape. I expected a clock to fall out of the trees and hit me in the face. — David Feherty
Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we… — Alan Moore
Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do. — Glenn Close
The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was… — Frank Lloyd Wright
The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No civilization has ever… — Eckhart Tolle
I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must… — Denis Diderot
I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape. — Mark Ruffalo
The rocks are not so close akin to us as the soil; they are one more remove from us; but they lie back of all,… — John Burroughs
Across the communication landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. — J. G. Ballard
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
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
The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time. — Amiri Baraka
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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