Landscape Quotes - Page 3

• We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Children, Land, Behavior

  Lawrence Durrell (1969). “Justine”, Pocket

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• There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outline all our lives.

  Josephine Hart

  Life, Soul, Geography

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• All gardening is landscape painting.

  William Kent

  Beauty, Garden, Design

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• We can choose to be grateful, no matter what. This type of gratitude transcends whatever is happening around us. It surpasses disappointment, discouragement and despair. It blooms just as beautifully in the icy landscape of winter as it does in the pleasant warmth of summer.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Summer, Gratitude, Disappointment

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• I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the painting, it's like going back into childhood. And it's like an abstract piece.. it becomes the landscape of the brush marks rather than just sort of an intellectual landscape.

  Jenny Saville

  People, Childhood, Intellectual

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• While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.

  Max Muller

  Rivers, Remains, Seems

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• Landscape shapes culture

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Culture, Shapes

  Terry Tempest Williams (1984). “Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajoland”, p.135, UNM Press

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• The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Hurt

  Mark Hertzberg, Frank Lloyd Wright (2004). “Wright in Racine: The Architect's Vision for One American City”, p.11, Pomegranate

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• Each city has its own culinary landscape.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Cities, Culinary

  "'Tangy, Tart, Hot & Sweet': Padma's Passport to Flavors". Interview With Brad Thomas Parsons, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 27, 2007.

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

  Georges Simenon

  Nature, Real, Lakes

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• We think in language. We think in words. Language is the landscape of thought.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Language

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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• The crowd is the veil through which the familiar city beckons to the flâneur as phantasmagoria-now a landscape, now a room.

  Walter Benjamin

  Cities, Veils, Crowds

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith (2002). “Selected Writings: 1935-1938”, p.40, Harvard University Press

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• Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Health, Exercise, Air

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.227

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

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Disappointment, Tests

  Ansel Adams (1965). “Basic Photo: Natural-light photography”

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• You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Twilight, Experience, Noon

  Woodrow Wilson (1952). “Woodrow Wilson's own story”

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• Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

  Alice Walker

  Beautiful, Horse, Inspiration

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• There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Life, Dog, Men

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• Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Differences, Vision, World

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• A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Book, Consciousness, States

  "The Art of Thinking". Book by Ernest Dimnet, p. 122, 1928.

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

  Luis Barragan

  Gardening, Architecture, Divides

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

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Philosophical, Men, Exploration

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• I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not just snapping at whats in front of you.

  Frans Lanting

  Mean, Thinking, Knowing

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• When you look at a wall spotted with stains...you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautiful with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees. Or again, you may see battles and figures in action, or strange faces and costumes, and an endless variety of objects which you could reduce to complete and well-drawn figures.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Beautiful, Wall, Rocks

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• There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Horizon

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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• I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.

  David Byrne

  Beautiful, Cameras, I've Learned

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