Landscape Quotes - Page 9

The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape.

If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.

I dislike landscapes. I only like people, and plastic flowers.

You don't go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that's benign conquest. It's a glorious way of exploring other landscapes and other cultures in a very life-affirming way.

The vast number of photographers, feeding on anything visible, overgraze the landscape the way cattle overgraze their pasture.

The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter.

If it form the one landscape that we the inconstant ones Are consistently homesick for, this is chiefly Because it dissolves in water.

landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks only to be contemplated.

Each city has its own culinary landscape.

The landscape of the American West has to be seen to believed and has to be believed to be seen.

Dance is the landscape of man's soul.

The idea is to have no idea. Get lost. Get lost in the landscape.

How to save the old that's worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.

There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia.

You can't transmit a landscape, happily enough.

The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others.

I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods.

You can put a gardener behind the wheel, but you can't keep her eyes off the landscape.

The landscape has been so totally changed, the ways of thinking have been so deeply affected, that it is very hard to get hold of what it was like before… It is very hard to realize how total a change in outlook Isaac Newton has produced.

But it is also untrue that I have nothing specific in mind. As with my landscapes: I see countless landscapes, photograph barely 1 in 100,000, and paint barely 1 in 100 of those that I photograph. I am therefore seeking something quite specific; from this I conclude that I know what I want.

Relish the fresh landscape of my wound, break rushes and delicate rivulets, drink blood poured on honeyed thigh.

We have little control over the outer weather patterns as we make our way through the landscape of a life. But we can become masters of the inner landscape. We can use what happens on the outside to change the way we function on the inside.

Sex, without society as its landscape, has never been of much interest to fiction.

In the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape.

Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.