Bumps Quote by Jack Kerouac

I have always had a love for American geography, and especially for the landscapes of the South. One of my pleasures has been to…

— Willie Morris

One classic American landscape haunts all of American literature. It is a picture of Eden, perceived at the instant of history when corruption has…

— Jonathan Raban

I have a fondness for when the landscape becomes surreal.

— Edward Burtynsky

There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia.

— Joan Didion

Many of the poets I most admire have a way of embodying their peculiar obsessions via landscape that can sometimes seem magical.

— Anna Journey

I know that the only reason American landscapes sometimes disappoint me is that, just a century before I was born, the great rivers and…

— John Burnside

I went to West Texas and started writing a cycle of Americana poems after the space conjured images that, as a child, I only…

— Nathalie Handal

“I wanted to put my hand to an enormous paean which would unify my vision of America with words spilled out in the modern…

— Jack Kerouac

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

The physical domain of the country had its counterpart in me. The trails I made led outward into the hills and swamps, but they…

— John Haines

“A step lower and strangeness creeps in: perceiving that the world is "dense", sensing to what a degree a stone is foreign and irreducible…

— Albert Camus

Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry, about the country, the suburbs and the seaside. Then there comes love... and increasingly;…

— John Betjeman