Best Landscapes Lines
166 Landscapes quotes by 139 unique authors
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Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Collect adventures and experiences to reminisce about…go to far places, meet new people, eat exotic foods, enjoy all varieties of women, look on unfamiliar landscapes,…
— Gary Jennings
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Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina…
— Pat Conroy
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Landscapes of great wonder and beauty lie under our feet and all around us. They are discovered in tunnels in the ground, the heart of…
— Walt Disney
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Each thing I do, I rush through so I can do something else. In such a way do the days pass---a blend of stock car…
— Stephen Dobyns
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Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.
— Machado de Assis
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At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save the natural world…
— Thomas Friedman
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One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards. Why is it so difficult…
— James Salter
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The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the…
— Wilfred Owen
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In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of…
— Cormac McCarthy
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I…
— Bjork
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Like prospecting in the 19th century, reconnaissance of the asteroids would of necessity take place in an arena where trouble is likely and help is…
— Seth Shostak
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Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes and docile creatures.…
— Paul Bloom
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It was a very idyllic childhood, surrounded by utterly beautiful landscapes that I got very, very bored of when I hit my teens. But being…
— Jessica Raine
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I paint landscapes, figuratives. I painted all my life. In fact, I started as a commercial artist.
— Pierce Brosnan
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