Landscape Quotes
873 Landscape quotes by 647 unique authors
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Each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul.
— Martine Leavitt
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Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.
— Virginia Woolf
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Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.
— Sylvia Plath
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My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises and falls. But…
— Haruki Murakami
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Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would…
— Isabel Allende
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We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.
— Robert M. Pirsig
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Most people, looking back at their childhood, see it as a misty country half-forgotten or only to be remembered through an evocative sound or scent,…
— D.E. Stevenson
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When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all…
— Susanna Clarke
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Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.
— Freeman Dyson
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The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the…
— Wilfred Owen
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It's funny. When we were alive we spent much of our time staring up at the cosmos and wondering what was out there. We were…
— Jon Stewart
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It is true that I can trip over anything and nothing – a speck of dust, a patch of sunlight, an idea. I move through…
— Franny Billingsley
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Switters was actually quite fond of Seattle's weather, and not merely because of it's ambivalence. He liked it's subtle, muted qualities and the landscape that…
— Tom Robbins
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God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.
— John Muir
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In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of…
— Cormac McCarthy
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I'll sue!" Ian sputtered. "I'll sue you AND the dog. And the country of South Korea. And...and..." "The landscape architect?" Natalie asked. "The landscape architect!"…
— Peter Lerangis
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...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.
— Jasper Fforde
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The sky was different, without color, taut and unforgiving. But the water was the most unforgiving thing, nearly black at times, cold enough, I knew,…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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Then followed that beautiful season... Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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New York has a thousand universes in it that don't always connect but we do all walk the same streets, hear the same sirens, ride…
— Jay-Z
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There is a special charm to journeys undertaken before daybreak in hot lands: the air is soft and cool and the coming of dawn reveals…
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to all the places…
— Sigrid Undset
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We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it…
— Neil Gaiman
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I wonder sometimes what the memory of God looks like. Is it a palace of infinite rooms, a chest of many jeweled objects, a long,…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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If [hand-drawn animation] is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are…
— Hayao Miyazaki
Who Wrote These Landscape Quotes
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