Best Landscapes Quotes
166 Landscapes quotes by 139 unique authors
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I should like to sleep like a cat, with all the fur of time, with a tongue rough as flint, with the dry sex of…
— Pablo Neruda
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To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable…
— Ivars Peterson
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I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp. You will see…
— Ciaran Carson
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Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes,…
— Sergei Eisenstein
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My landscapes are not only beautiful, or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful.' By 'untruthful,' I mean…
— Gerhard Richter
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All elongated objects, such as sticks, tree-trunks and umbrellas(the opening of these last being comparable to an erection) may stand for the male organ...Boxes, cases,…
— Sigmund Freud
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He loved telling stories. He had been everywhere in the world. The northwest frontier, the landscape of the Hindu Kush, was one of the great…
— Sebastian Barry
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Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
— Marcel Proust
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There is no formula to it because writing every song, for me, is a little journey. The first note has to lift you and make…
— Enya
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The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins…
— Derek Walcott
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Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes.
— Dave Reichert
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
— Claude Monet
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There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening -…
— Gustav Klimt
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Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments...Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural characteristics of landscapes…
— Bill Mollison
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Consciously designed landscapes which mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature, while yielding an abundance of food, fibre and energy for provision of local…
— David Holmgren
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My paintings are titled after they are finished. I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me - and remembered feelings of them, which…
— Joan Mitchell
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Our careers aren't paths so much as landscapes that are navigated. We're free agents, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs -- each with our own unique brand.
— Keith Ferrazzi
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An image of the earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit…
— Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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I love big budgeted, epic rock landscapes. That's what turns me on.
— Melissa Auf der Maur
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Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and the soles of…
— Robert Macfarlane
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I have always had a love for American geography, and especially for the landscapes of the South. One of my pleasures has been to drive…
— Willie Morris
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I have been manipulated, and I have in turn manipulated others, by recording their response to suffering and misery. So there is guilt in every…
— Don McCullin
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Although it is tempting to think of these natural landscapes as reflecting a stability in climactic and geologic forces, long periods of climactic and geophysical…
— David Holmgren
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Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain…
— James Salter
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It is comforting that travel should have an architecture, and that it is possible to contribute a few stones to it, although the traveller is…
— Claudio Magris
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