Landscape Quotes
873 Landscape quotes by 647 unique authors
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Collect adventures and experiences to reminisce about…go to far places, meet new people, eat exotic foods, enjoy all varieties of women, look on unfamiliar landscapes,…
— Gary Jennings
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[I]n the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape. He is either on a horse or driving a car, depending,…
— Don DeLillo
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina…
— Pat Conroy
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It was all wrong, ugly, unhappy and coloured with cynicism, but nothing was tragic, there were no moments that could change anything or anybody. From…
— Doris Lessing
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The past is not a peaceful landscape lying there behind me, a country in which I can stroll wherever I please, and will gradually show…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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We think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding but find our expressions of faith sowing division; we believe ourselves to be a…
— Barack Obama
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A farm includes the passion of the farmer's heart, the interest of the farm's customers, the biological activity in the soil, the pleasantness of the…
— Joel Salatin
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It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes even a concrete…
— Bill Bryson
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We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is that…
— Neil Gaiman
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A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.
— Rebecca Solnit
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Landscapes of great wonder and beauty lie under our feet and all around us. They are discovered in tunnels in the ground, the heart of…
— Walt Disney
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You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up…
— Bruce Sterling
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Each thing I do, I rush through so I can do something else. In such a way do the days pass---a blend of stock car…
— Stephen Dobyns
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Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.
— Machado de Assis
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Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers…
— Neal Stephenson
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Your soul is a chosen landscape Where charming masked and costumed figures go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath their fantastic disguises.…
— Paul Verlaine
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Little by little things began to assume a new aspect. The sense of insecurity vanished, words came of themselves, I was no longer so painfully…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body…
— Lois Lowry
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The spectacular landscape circling the fortress supplies an essential backdrop, inspiring dreamers to wander its ruins for the sake of it; North American tourists, bound…
— Che Guevara
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You write your books. You scatter your seeds. Rats might eat them, or they might rot. In California, some seeds lie dormant for decades because…
— Rebecca Solnit
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I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which we can roam…
— Rebecca Solnit
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What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream…
— Unknown Author
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The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a…
— Susan Sontag
Who Wrote These Landscape Quotes
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