Landscape Quotes

873 Landscape quotes by 647 unique authors

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement each other, creating… — Haruki Murakami
Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or… — W. Somerset Maugham
At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save the natural world… — Thomas Friedman
I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something… — Martha Graham
Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our… — Arthur Golden
The oversized chairs are white; the walls, covered with occasional landscape paintings, are white; and the plush carpet is the whitest of all. I'm insanely… — Wendy Mass
Darkness has completely descended onto the landscape and I stood up and stretched my arms above my head and I wondered what it would be… — David Wojnarowicz
I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words. By… — Donald Miller
He slouched back in his seat, looking tired, and leaned his face on his shoulder to look at me while he played with my hair.… — Maggie Stiefvater
For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn't know we needed and take us places where we didn't know we didn't… — Kathleen Norris
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf.… — Annie Dillard
The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When one travels abroad,… — Marisha Pessl
A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me… — Michael Pollan
One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards. Why is it so difficult… — James Salter
He waited while Gilan and Will moved the cloaks experimentally, eyeing each other and studying the unusual colors, seeing how they would blend into the… — John Flanagan
Knot the tie and go to work, unknot the tie and go to sleep. I sleep. I dream. I wake. I sing. I get out… — Richard Siken
If I am ever to find these trees meaningful I must have you by the hand. As it is, they stretch dusty fingers into an… — Frank O'Hara
...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing. — Jack Kerouac
Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to… — Mervyn Peake
There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The desert could not be claimed or owned — it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given… — Michael Ondaatje
We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly. — Simone Weil
The landscape is best described as 'pedestrian hostile.' It's pointless to try to take a walk, so I generally just stay in the room and… — David Sedaris
summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything… — Harper Lee
A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own… — Henry David Thoreau

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