Landscape Quote by Edith Wharton Download Open image “The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.” — Edith Wharton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Landscape Mind
America has no monuments to ideas; her monuments are erected to individuals. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
America is fascinated with seeing people have nothing and turn it to something. — Chamillionaire Copy Share Image
The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. — J. Edgar Hoover Copy Share Image
It is impossible to describe a landscape so validly as to exclude all other descriptions, for no one can see the landscape in all… — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
“Suddenly the air was full of that deep clangor of bells which periodically covers Rome with a roof of silver.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile. And he felt himself… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“High Pasture Come up--come up: in the dim vale below The autumn mist muffles the fading trees, But on this keen hill-pasture, though the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Two ways to be a light for all, is to be a flaming candle or the mirror that reflects it” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“... no treasure-house of Atreus was ever as rich as a well-stored memory.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“...the endless labour of rolling human stupidity up the steep hill of understanding.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of the people ever really get the word about life,… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
After 20 years of painting wildlife subjects in acrylic, I felt the need for a change and began to explore portraiture and landscape in oils. — Ron Parker Copy Share Image
In Africa, animals and the natural landscape allow local communities to support themselves, as there is a constant source of money from tourism. — David Lidington Copy Share Image
I know when I'm not dancing, and I go home, I usually work with my dad, who's an electrician. So I do stuff like… — Tristan MacManus Copy Share Image
Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas,… — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back. — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty. — Will Self Copy Share Image
Our life is a constant journey, from birth to death. The landscape changes, the people change, our needs change, but the train keeps moving.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The fake Zionist regime will disappear from the landscape of geography. — Ali Khamenei Copy Share Image
If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image