1960s Quote by Rebecca Solnit

The book recounts stories from my half-century of experience in the world of architecture and my journey of discovery of the importance of considering…

— Sim Van der Ryn

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.

— Henry Moore

Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered…

— John Constable

“The intellectual context in which Eliot began work on the "long poem" that was to become The Waste Land has much to tell us…

— Jewel Spears Brooker

The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot succeed. His…

— Walter J. Phillips

I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive…

— Ansel Adams

What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking…

— Greg Lynn

When painting a landscape it is desirable to walk through the clumps and around the bushes, around the trees, the houses and the rocks.…

— John French Sloan

Nature engenders the science of painting

— Robert Delaunay

What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has…

— Rem Koolhaas

If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it…

— E. J. Hughes

I have been using the art of photography to research the ways in which the pictorial strategies of the Nineteenth Century color the way…

— John Pfahl