Best Landscapes Sayings
166 Landscapes quotes by 139 unique authors
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Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is... difficult to think of a…
— Simon Schama
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By gathering seed from trees which are close to our homes and close to our hearts, helping them to germinate and grow, and then planting…
— Unknown Author
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By means of trees, wildlife could be conserved, pollution decreased, and the beauty of our landscapes enhanced. This is the way, or at least one…
— E F Schumacher
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The great stillness in these landscapes that once made me restless seeps into me day by day, and with it the unreasonable feeling that I…
— Peter Matthiessen
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The visual palette suggests the creepy pastel paintings of Guy Peellaert (Rock Dreams); the fantasy battles with monsters and samurais echo the muscular landscapes of…
— Richard Corliss
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At first, I thought 'this series is going to be all about death and desecration,' but instead became a more complex landscape of human relationships.…
— Ralph Steadman
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The landscape of the mind, against which our thoughts and expectations move, when the wind of the imagination is active, changes as quickly as the…
— William Hurrell Mallock
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Landscapes, even when their general type is similar, are capable of as many expressions as the same type of human face, and, without our being…
— William Hurrell Mallock
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There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious landscapes from nameless…
— Leslie Fiedler
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National Permaculture Day is a chance to share thoughts, visions and lots of common sense ways that we can all make a positive difference to…
— Costa Georgiadis
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I like big, open, spare landscapes. There's lots of room. Nobody bothers you... I feel as if I can think there.
— Gretel Ehrlich
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The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides,…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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The great painter has something to say. He does not paint men, landscapes, or furniture; but an idea.
— Robert Henri
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Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their…
— John Berger
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My paintings are loosely based on meta narratives. The pictures float in and out of pictorial genres. Still life's become personified, portraits become events, and…
— Dana Schutz
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Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
— Gavin Rossdale
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The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe with which our…
— Ronald Reagan
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I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes or landscapes.
— Ken Burns
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As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head…
— C.S. Lewis
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Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to…
— Aldous Huxley
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Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see…
— Marcel Proust
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I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of…
— Grimes
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Without imagination, you live in a small room with the windows closed. Imagination opens the windows and shows us landscapes, horizons that we would not…
— Maxine
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The greater number of landscapes I explored, the more it seemed that they had traits in common and that the essence of each was not…
— J. B. Jackson
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