Alas Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The most beautiful landscapes in the world, if they evoke no memory, if they bear no trace of a remarkable event, are uninteresting compared…

— Madame de Stael

The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that…

— Robert Henri

I'm interested in how people interact with the landscape around them, and the effect that has.

— Douglas Henshall

My photographs recall the memories of the human race.

— John Coplans

“Since landscape changes like this from country to country it must owe very little to Nature: Nature is no more than the canvas, and…

— Richard Hughes

“Your memory creates postcard images, but it doesn't really comprehend the world at all. That's why a landscape is so affected by the mood…

— Olga Tokarczuk

“My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain...There was a time when our people covered the land as the…

— Chief Seattle

Humans, not places, make memories.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

All of my work comes out of a deep concern for human expansion into the landscape.

— Edward Burtynsky

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…

— Annie Leibovitz

I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None…

— N. Scott Momaday

When I visit again some haunt of my youth, I am glad to find that nature wears so well. The landscape is indeed something…

— Henry David Thoreau