Artistic Quote by Robert Hass

I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as…

— Robert Hass

The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden.

— Edward Carpenter

“Now, wilderness can be seen as a useful fiction, a fiction constructed by John Muir and his heirs and deployed to keep places from…

— Rebecca Solnit

My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.

— Paula Spencer

I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the…

— Anonymous

My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary…

— Langston Hughes

Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring, autobiography is frequently trivial,…

— Robert Adams

“Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the…

— Jon Krakauer

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

— Chinua Achebe

“Writers help summon people to a vision of human betterment...They create an awareness not just to things as they are, but as they ought…

— Lilian Gafni

And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery were the…

— Adriana Trigiani

I grew up in Belle Harbor, which is in New York City, but it has the most powerful sense of nature and seasons. It…

— Joel Sternfeld