American landscape Quote by Jonathan Raban

...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.

— Jack Kerouac

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

— Robert Hughes

“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

“children listen to superstitious tales, the story goes, that that spot, in the heart of the "Big Cane," is a haunted place. For more…

— Solomon Northup

“Seasons turned, apple blossoms blushed and withered, fruit swelled and dropped, snow fell and melted, and children grew to bear children of their own,…

— Kali Wallace

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix…

— Billy Corgan

“The unchecked growth of many summers, rising and declining, has lessened the penetration of the light in a way one rarely sees in farmland…

— J.A. Baker

“And as if by magic - and it may have been magic, for I believe America is the land of magic, and that we,…

— Gene Wolfe

Stories cannot demolish frontiers, but they can punch holes in our mental walls, and through those holes we can get a glimpse of the…

— Elif Safak

In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.

— Paul Kingsnorth

One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.

— Justin Cronin

That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what often makes…

— Andrew Lam