Landscape Quotes - Page 17

• None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.

  John Muir

  Adventure, Long, Ugly

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.58, Great West Books

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• Support for shelters and transitional living and housing programs is necessary if we are going to change the landscape for homeless boys and girls in America.

  Jewel

  Girl, Boys, America

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• DeFrantz's study...is not the first book about the protean Ailey, who was born in hardscrabble Texas in 1931 and died in 1989 after creating close to 80 works. But it is perhaps the most comprehensive, combining biography, criticism, the analysis of dance criticism, and a sort of corporate history, siting the now firmly established Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in the international cultural landscape.

  Alvin Ailey

  Book, Texas, Creating

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• No one can improve on nature's landscapes. I feel I've hit the mark when I've captured a balance between mood, look, and feel... when viewers say they sense the desert heat, or the chill of a mountain snowfall.

  Matt Smith

  Mountain, Balance, Desert

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• My hope is that the music creates a strange, beautiful, overwhelming - sometimes even frightening - landscape, and invites you to get lost in it.

  John Luther Adams

  Beautiful, Strange, Sometimes

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• There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the proprietorship of a sick landscape. We tilt windmills in behalf of conservation in convention halls and editorial offices, but on the back forty we disclaim even owning a lance.

  Aldo Leopold

  Pride, Animal, Land

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.158, Oxford University Press, USA

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• To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of inferior landscape that lead to them, my affections are wholly bound up.

  John Muir

  Nature, Mountain, Affection

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• How strange it is, our little procession of life! The child says, "When I am a big boy." But what is that? The big boy says, "When I grow up." And then, grown up, he says, "When I get married." But to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to "When I'm able to retire." And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it; somehow he has missed it all, and it is gone.

  Stephen Leacock

  Life, Retirement, Growing Up

  Stephen Leacock (2012). “Feast of Stephen”, p.105, McClelland & Stewart

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• All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.

  William Hazlitt

  Void, Form, Said

  Of Turner's painting, quoted in J Lindsay Turner: The Man and his Art (1985).

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• I'd say that, in addition to actually taking my brother and sister and I camping and hiking and river rafting all our lives and introducing us to the power of natural landscapes, his [my father's] biggest impact on my thinking has been to always argue that the "spiritual case for Nature" was not going to outweigh the needs of 7 billion people and to insist that law, science and economics were the critical frameworks through which we had to defend the value of nature.

  Edward Norton

  Spiritual, Brother, Father

  "Dialogues on the Environment: Q&A With Edward Norton". Interview with Mark Tercek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• Many contemporary painters feel that their landscapes come from within and are brought to the surface and given form as a result of various stimuli. The artist's internal world is waiting to be evoked by whatever means the artist finds most productive, and... this world is just as important as the outer, visible world.

  Edward Betts

  Mean, Artist, Waiting

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• I love the whole futuristic landscape of dark, rainy neon, the mix of Eastern and Western cultures and the beautiful shots of the flying cars.

  Reggie Watts

  Beautiful, Dark, Flying Cars

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• (The processes are) doubly ruinous: they impoverish the earth by hastily removing, for the benefit of a few generations, the common resources which, once expended and dissipated, can never be restored; and second, in its technique, its habits, its processes, the paleotechnic period is equally inimical to the earth considered as a human habitat, by its destruction of the beauty of the landscape, its ruining of streams, its pollution of drinking water, its filling the air with a finely divided carboniferous deposit, which chokes both life and vegetation.

  Lewis Mumford

  Drinking, Air, Water

  "The Theory and Practice of Regionalism". The Sociological Review, vol. 20, nos. 1 and 2, 1928.

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• We're defining the competitive landscape... of who can provide the most supportive services that make life easier, keep track of things, that complement human memory in a way that helps us get things done.

  Eric Horvitz

  Memories, Track, Supportive

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• At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer Ansel Adams has been visionary in his efforts to preserve this country's wild and scenic areas, both in film and on Earth. Drawn to the beauty of nature's monuments, he is regarded by environmentalists as a monument himself, and by photographers as a national institution. It is through his foresight and fortitude that so much of America has been saved for future Americans.

  Ansel Adams

  Country, Skills, America

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• The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.

  Aldo Leopold

  Portraits, Owners, Farms

  Aldo Leopold (2012). “For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings”, p.24, Island Press

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• We offer you the landscape of your birth --
  Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame.
  We cannot ask forgiveness of the earth
  For killing what we cannot even name.

  Dana Gioia

  Names, Earth, Blame

  Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.50, Macmillan

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• It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No one knows, till he has tried, what strange beauty and subtle composition is prepared to his hand by Nature.

  John Ruskin

  Hands, Strange, Subtle

  John Ruskin (1885). “Modern Painters: pt. 5. Of mountain beauty”

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• 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.

  John Galsworthy

  House, Saving, Problem

  John Galsworthy (2015). “The Forsyte Saga Complete Edition: The Forsyte Saga + A Modern Comedy + End of the Chapter + On Forsyte ‘Change (A Prequel to Forsyte Saga): Complete Nine Novels”, p.2488, e-artnow

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• The Place of Religion in Chicago is a clearly written account of a little-studied aspect of American landscape. Based on unique field surveys and supported by photographs, tables, and beautifully crafted maps, the book will form a lasting contribution to our understanding of an overlooked element of the American urban scene: the religious landscape of a major metropolis.

  Peter Haggett

  Religious, Book, Unique

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• The institutional scene in which American man has developed has lacked that accumulation from intervening stages which has been so dominant a feature of the European landscape.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Men, Scene, Stage

  "The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson" by Daniel J. Boorstin, University of Chicago Press, (p. 6), 1993.

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• A landscape clean and crisp in form and colour, rich in inspiration is all that an artist could wish for, begging to be used, and full of inherent possibilities.

  Franklin Carmichael

  Inspiration, Artist, Wish

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• When you draw a crowd of people in a street or room or landscape, decide whether you want to say that the people dominate the place or that the place is more important than the people.

  John French Sloan

  People, Important, Crowds

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• How to paint the landscape: First you make your bow to the landscape. Then you wait, and if the landscape bows to you, then, and only then, can you paint the landscape.

  John Marin

  Waiting, Firsts, Bows

  John Marin, Nannette Vicars Maciejunes, Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1991). “Trees as Seen Through the Eyes of John Marin and Charles Burchfield: May 1991”

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• Very early in life, I fell in love with the landscape of the human face, where all the emotional states of life are to be found.

  Burton Silverman

  Emotional, Faces, States

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