Landscape Quotes
873 Landscape quotes by 647 unique authors
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We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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One problem with people is that as soon as they fill a space it's them you see and not the space. Large, desolate landscapes stop…
— Erlend Loe
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Once the storm comes out, the landscape changes. What you had before is altered in some way. And you have a choice: build something new…
— David Levithan
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Whoever you are, bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people act like extroverts, but the effort costs them energy, authenticity, and even…
— Susan Cain
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She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate…
— Ruth Ozeki
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The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective…
— Oscar Wilde
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Victor Faust did much more than help me escape a life of abuse and servitude. He changed me. He changed the landscape of my dreams,…
— J.A. Redmerski
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If I had not grown up in Nigeria- and if all I knew of Africa were of popular images- I too would think that africa…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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It was one of those sumptuous days when the world is full of autumn muskiness and tangy, crisp perfection: vivid blue sky, deep green fields,…
— Bill Bryson
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I open the door to the fear landscape room and flip open the small black box that was in my back pocket to see the…
— Veronica Roth
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In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one who waits for some person or event to arrive at…
— Robert Grudin
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Improvising musicians are musical travelers, voyagers. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.
— Gary Burton
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We are too quickly losing important landscapes in this country to development - and I worry that if we do not act to protect them…
— Louis Bacon
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We are a landscape of all we have seen.
— Isamu Noguchi
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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to…
— Claude Monet
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The only sense we still respect is eyesight, probably because it is so closely attached to the brain. Go into any American house at random,…
— Galway Kinnell
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Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Silence was the cure, if only temporarily, silence and geography. But of what was I being cured? I do not know, have never known. I…
— Mary Cantwell
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Landscape shapes culture
— Terry Tempest Williams
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The myriad valleys could have arisen anywhere on the landscape. The current positions are quite accidental. If we could repeat the experiment, we might obtain…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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I love to get into a landscape and paint my horses.
— Ronnie Wood
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Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.
— Michael Heizer
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I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.
— Rachel Lambert Mellon
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I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands.
— Louis Bacon
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My mother brought me numerous times to visit Orton as a child, and I have visited the gardens with my children many times. Orton is…
— Louis Bacon
Who Wrote These Landscape Quotes
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