Composition Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Landscape is history made visible.

— J. B. Jackson

“Depending on the places we passed, the night around us shaded from ink black to red to purple to a washed-out yellow that hung…

— Nic Pizzolatto

With my work, I try to delve into the several layers that compose the edifice of history, to take the shadows cast by this…

— Vhils

For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it…

— Claude Monet

The character of the landscape changes from hour to hour, day to day, season to season. Nothing of the earth can be taken for…

— N. Scott Momaday

“The rock strata of the inner canyon changed from dark umbers and black shadows to immense bands of pastel yellow, white, green, and a…

— Aron Ralston

History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet…

— Terence McKenna

If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Earth as a species, what…

— Bill Viola

By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams,…

— John Milton

Man-made things, buildings, boats, etc., we see more decidedly than the other things in a landscape.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it.

— Augustus William Hare

“And as we stood there, a curious thing happened: a kind of window opened in the rain, just as if a cloud had been…

— Francis Brett Young