Landscape Quotes

The sky was the yellow color of old cheese and the clouds flew across it, as if they had seen someth...

Though American scenery is destitute of many of those circumstances that give value to the European,...

It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peeri...

Do all people have that? A face, a phrase, a landscape, an air bubble from the past suddenly floatin...

I know noble accentsAnd lucid, inescapable rhythms;But I know, too,That the blackbird is involvedIn ...

It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence wa...

How can you care about the image of a landscape, when you show by your deeds that you don't care for...

Is then no nook of English ground secureFrom rash assault?

This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mist...

He had been thinking of how landscape moulds a language. It was impossible to imagine these hills gi...

Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that’s its beauty.

I am no scientist. I explore the neighbourhood. An infant who has just learned to hold his head up h...

Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of...

Thomas Merton wrote, “there is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, makin...

The secret of seeing is, then the pearl of great price. If I thought he could teach me to find it an...

Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a world to compass these things, a w...

When her doctor took her bandages off and led her into the garden, the girl who was no longer blind ...

What I aim to do is not so much learn the names of the shreds of creation that flourish in this vall...

Think of a globe, a revolving globe on a stand. Think of a contour globe, whose mountain ranges cast...

At the time of Lewis and Clark, setting the prairies on fire was a well-known signal that meant, ‘Co...

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment...

To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people...

He loved to meditate on a land laid waste, Britain deserted by the legions, the rare pavements riven...

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balmines...

One learns a landscape finally not by knowing the name or identity of everything in it, but by perce...

I think of two landscapes- one outside the self, the other within. The external landscape is the one...

If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Eart...

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.

It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because ...

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage poin...

They laid up in the shade of a rock shelf until past noon, scratching out a place in the gray lava d...

I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and ...

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty,...

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was slee...

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is in the bog in...

I had never liked, even feared a little, this wild reach of marsh and mud flats where everything see...

I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and w...

Sometimes in the summer evenings they walked up the hill to watch the afterglow clinging to the tops...

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploratio...

I realized I still had my eyes shut. I had shut them when I put my face to the screen, like I was sc...

Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when i...

It is a pity indeed to travel and not get this essential sense of landscape values. You do not need ...

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on eith...

Agriculture changes the landscape more than anything else we do. It alters the composition of specie...

A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reve...

Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretchi...

The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a lands...

London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being...

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