Landscape Quotes

• Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Life, Stay Strong

  "The Wright Style". Book by Carla Lind, p. 3, 1992.

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• Don’t look for new landscapes, use new eyes to see what is already there.

  Gerald Causse

  Eye, Looks, Use

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

  Charles Lindbergh

  Distance, Life Is Like, Vantage Point

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• The soul of a landscape, the spirits of the elements, the genius of every place will be revealed to a loving view of nature.

  Karl Jaspers

  Views, Soul, Genius

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• The landscape affects the human psyche - the soul, the body and the innermost contemplations - like music. Every time you feel nature deeper you resonate better with her, finding new elements of balance and freedom.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Music, Soul, Balance

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  The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Spirit, American Landscape, Conditions

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• Works of art are landscapes of the mind.

  Ted Godwin

  Art, Mind, Works Of Art

  Ted Godwin, Luther Pokrant (2002). “The Studio Handbook for Working Artists: A Survival Manual”, p.154, University of Regina Press

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• This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand.

  Emmet Gowin

  Photography, Heart, Photographer

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

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Mind, Natural, Contemplating

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1817). “Elements of criticism [by H. Home].”, p.299

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• I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I lie and relie on the earth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lying, Earth, Sincere

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2217, Delphi Classics

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• When you are with a landscape or a human being where there is no need to speak, but simply to listen, to perceive, to feel.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Needs, Speak, Feels

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beautiful, Ideas, Water

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• Landscape is history made visible.

  J. B. Jackson

  Made, Visible

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• Just as storms change the landscape of the earth, our hardships change the landscape of the heart.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Heart, Storm, Hardship

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• Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Nature, Soul, Details

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• We are a landscape of all we have seen.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Inspirational, Life, Garden

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• Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.

  Jim Hodges

  Emotional, Pieces, Psychological

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• If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.

  Annie Proulx

  Writing, Character, Steps

  1993 Time, 29 Nov.

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• Landscapes of great wonder and beauty lie under our feet and all around us. They are discovered in tunnels in the ground, the heart of flowers, the hollows of trees, fresh-water ponds, seaweed jungles between tides, and even drops of water. Life in these hidden worlds is more startling in reality than anything we can imagine. How could this earth of ours, which is only a speck in the heavens, have so much variety of life, so many curious and exciting creatures?

  Walt Disney

  Nature, Lying, Flower

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• The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.

  Molly Parker

  Growing Up, Doe, Way

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

  Bridget Riley

  Force, Visuals, Dynamism

  Bridget Riley (2009). “The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009”

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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 landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture...we merge in an iridescent chaos.

  Paul Cezanne

  Thinking, Chaos, Iridescent

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