Landscape Quotes

873 Landscape quotes by 647 unique authors

Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the… — Wallace Stegner
As a thinker I keep discovering that beauty itself is as much a fact, and a mystery...I consider nature's facts -- its beautiful and grotesque… — Annie Dillard
I want to feel both the beauty and the pain of the age we are living in. I want to survive my life without becoming… — Terry Tempest Williams
I have been carrying on a dialogue between the landscape and the female body (based on my own silhouette) I am overwhelmed by the feeling… — Ana Mendieta
Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald… — Barbara Ehrenreich
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if… — Henry David Thoreau
What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape: it is the human figure. — Henri Matisse
I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What… — Edith Wharton
It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part… — Cate Blanchett
I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds. — J. G. Ballard
The West to me is where the landscape is, — Lee Friedlander
The English landscape at its finest - such as I saw this morning - possesses a quality that the landscapes of other nations, however more… — Kazuo Ishiguro
I’d like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect… — Annie Leibovitz
When the magic hour arrives, my thoughts center on light rather than on the landscape. I search for perfect light, then hunt for something earthbound… — Galen Rowell
At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the… — Carl Jung
Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive. — Karl Marx
For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces. — Bridget Riley
I think the one overwhelming emotion that we had was when we saw the earth rising in the distance over the lunar landscape . .… — Frank Borman
Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They determine… — Leon Krier
The Italian landscape has always harmonized the vulgar and the Vitruvian: the contorni around the duomo, the portiere'S laundry across the padrone's portone, Supercortemaggiore against… — Robert Venturi
To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion. — N. Scott Momaday
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of… — N. Scott Momaday
There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we return to such… — N. Scott Momaday
It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order… — N. Scott Momaday

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