Landscape Quotes
873 Landscape quotes by 647 unique authors
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In the depths of the mirror the evening landscape moved by, the mirror and the reflected figures like motion pictures superimposed one on the other.…
— Yasunari Kawabata
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Sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape.…
— Nicole Krauss
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The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are…
— Fernando Pessoa
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The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with…
— Wendell Berry
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The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances…
— Paul Theroux
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Our life is a constant journey, from birth to death. The landscape changes, the people change, our needs change, but the train keeps moving. Life…
— Paulo Coelho
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The horse seemed to bend time and space as he ran, blurring the landscape and making Frank feel like he'd just drunk a gallon of…
— Rick Riordan
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The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear…
— Joel Salatin
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Hendersonville is home because I live there and I work there. But when I come back to Pennsylvania and see the crowds and the landscape,…
— Taylor Swift
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And it's a disquieting thought that not even the past is done with, even that continues to change, as if in reality there is only…
— Karl Ove Knausgard
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Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you’re maybe under seven or something, the sky is just…
— Alan Rickman
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Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A chef. An interior…
— Terry McMillan
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Let your heart travel lightly. Because what you bring with you becomes part of the landscape.
— Anne Bishop
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She gathers my half of the blankets around her and curls up against the wall. She will sleep for hours more, dreaming endless landscapes and…
— Isaac Marion
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I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but…
— Annie Dillard
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Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be something much broader…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Really? I thought the transfers will go through Four’s landscape,” says Uriah. “Like he would let anyone do that,” she says, snorting. Something inside me…
— Veronica Roth
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I want your first trip to be with me. I want to show you cities and landscapes and teach you how to look at things…
— Tove Jansson
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Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel…
— Iris Murdoch
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My needs were simple I didn't bother much with themes or felicitous phrases and skipped fine descriptions of weather, landscapes and interiors. I wanted characters…
— Ian Mcewan
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The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of it's frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast…
— Edith Wharton
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Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.
— C.S. Lewis
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...And for every day you paint the war, take a week and paint the beauty, the color, the shape of the landscape you’re marching towards.…
— Andrea Gibson
Who Wrote These Landscape Quotes
647 authors contributed a total of 873 Landscape Quotes, led by these top contributors: