Landscape Quotes

873 Landscape quotes by 647 unique authors

Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy… — Ai Weiwei
My visual landscape as a child was the inside of a lot of these old churches. And the Baroque drama of the things was what… — Florence Welch
The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background. — Edith Wharton
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that… — Thornton Wilder
You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and… — Woodrow Wilson
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show. — Andrew Wyeth
Walkman was the precursor to the cell phone, in terms of your strategy for getting through the urban landscape and the modern experience. Insulate yourself… — Douglas Rushkoff
Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away. — Andy Stanley
Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a landscape, so exquisite… — Truman Capote
I’d spent my whole life waiting to awake on an ordinary morning in the town that was destined to be my home, in the arms… — Michael Chabon
We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the… — Vladimir Nabokov
The landscape was snow and green ice on broken mountains. These weren't old mountains, worn down by time and weather and full of gentle ski… — Terry Pratchett
Love makes you see a place differently, just as you hold differently an object that belongs to someone you love. If you know one landscape… — Anne Michaels
I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless a film of… — Vladimir Nabokov
I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth… — Rebecca Solnit
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how… — Arthur Schopenhauer
All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope. — Rebecca Solnit
At the foot of the mountain, the park ended and suddenly all was squalor again. I was once more struck by this strange compartmentalization that… — Bill Bryson
A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the… — Rebecca Solnit
Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished. — Rebecca Solnit
Something unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape. — Mary Ruefle
On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Interior of the hand. Sole that has come to walk only on feelings. That faces upward and in its mirror receives heavenly roads, which travel… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the… — Daniel Handler

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