Landscape Quotes - Page 11

For me, before I learned how to read I was really interested in story and in landscape and nature. I decided to become a writer almost as soon as I learned to read.

The Norfolk landscape sends a shiver through my soul.

I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.

Hands are the heart's landscape.

The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.

Truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes.

The basic change in the landscape since my salad days started with the defensive rediscovery of history and politics by all the theoretically-oriented academics in the late seventies and eighties.

There's no social realism in 'Tyrannosaur.' It's not about the social landscape or the political landscape or any of that. It's just about human beings. I never made 'Tyrannosaur' in reference to anybody - I just made it because I had to make my own films.

You're actually inside the surfboard... you're inside the landscape around you and the ocean is surging, you get totally inside the moment and it's so intense that time disappears, you disappear.

Los Angeles is more hospitable to writers [Than NY]. It's less claustrophobic. It feels more unpredictable and dangerous, and the landscape is less structured. You see coyotes lurking all over the place. It just feels wilder and more dangerous.

If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.

I will not rest until I have transformed the landscape of American politics.

People and things have edges, but where does a landscape stop?

So the recordings were these immersive landscapes, and yet, unlike the performances that almost no one would see, I had a sense that these could live forever. I was just starting to get my head around the democratic aspect of art; I didn't want to make rarefied things that were either alienatingly obscure or elite and art-worldy, so a recording that anyone could buy was a great medium.

The fundamental landscape of biology is undergoing a major upheaval, much as it did in the first decades of the 20th Century. This upheaval will take time to fully reveal its implications.

There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.

Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community.

As a landscape photographer we should be open to possibilities, for one thing often leads to another.

The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth.

Each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul.

What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.

No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.

I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.

To the landscape architect a rock garden... appears... the work of a lunatic.

If a young woman is looking at the landscape of Hollywood, what she sees is almost only challenges.