Landscape Quotes - Page 20

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

  Pearl S. Buck

  People, Grows

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.395, Open Road Media

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• The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled the shift to the knowledge society. Future historians may consider it the most important event of the twentieth century. We are clearly in the midst of this transformation; indeed, if history is any guide, it will not be completed until 2010 or 2020. But already it has changed the political, economic and moral landscape of the world.

  Peter Drucker

  Rights, Important Events, America

  "Post-Capitalist Society". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1993.

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• abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into our chosen realms of pleasure, they jar upon our sensibilities, they lessen our meager share of comforts, they are everywhere in our way, they are always an unnecessary feature in the landscape.

  Agnes Repplier

  Travel, Light, Jars

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• Dance is the landscape of man's soul.

  Martha Graham

  Men, Soul

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• 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.

  Patricia Hampl

  Stories, Beloved, Description

  Patricia Hampl (1993). “Spillville: A Collaboration”, Milkweed Editions

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• Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an untold number of forms of biological and social life are being destroyed in a brief span of time, a device is available to record what is disappearing.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Numbers, Cameras

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.17, Macmillan

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• There are times when the thing we are seeing changes before our very eyes, and if it is a landscape we praise nature, and if it is celestial we invoke God, but if it is a loved one who defects, we excuse ourselves and say we have to be somewhere and are already late for our next appointment. We do not stay to put pennies over the half-dead eyes.

  Edna O'Brien

  Eye, Half, Next

  Edna O'Brien (1974). “A Scandalous Woman, and Other Stories”

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• I have been using the art of photography to research the ways in which the pictorial strategies of the Nineteenth Century color the way in which the American landscape is apprehended by today's viewers.

  John Pfahl

  Photography, Art, Color

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• I'm over smoking. You know, I feel like I've gone on long hikes and gotten to the top of the mountain and I'm looking at something beautiful, some great huge landscape, and there's some of the cleanest air that's on the planet. And then I light up, and say, "Ahh, what a great smoking moment this is!" So it's something evil that's taken over, and I want control over it.

  Eddie Vedder

  Beautiful, Taken, Light

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The landscape of cinema is not original. Not to say there aren't great movies being made, but it's much easier for studios to make movies that have built-in audiences. So it's all remakes, adaptations, a lot of remakes of adaptations.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Cinema, Adaptation, Easier

  "Pacific Rim - Charlie Hunnam interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• One classic American landscape haunts all of American literature. It is a picture of Eden, perceived at the instant of history when corruption has just begun to set it. The serpent has shown his scaly head in the undergrowth. The apple gleams on the tree. The old drama of the Fall is ready to start all over again.

  Jonathan Raban

  Drama, Fall, Eden

  Jonathan Raban (1992). “For Love and Money: A Writing Life”, Perennial

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• The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.

  Northrop Frye

  Civilization, Doe, World

  Northrop Frye, Robert D. Denham, Jean O'Grady, David Staines (2003). “Northrop Frye on Canada”, p.468, University of Toronto Press

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• Democracy is an insecure landscape.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Insecure, Democracy

  Terry Tempest Williams (2010). “The Open Space of Democracy”, p.24, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Between the villages of Aubiere and Romagnat in the ancient Province of Auvergne there is an old road that comes suddenly over the top of a high hill. To stand south of this ridge looking up at the highway flowing over the skyline is to receive one of those irrefutable impressions from landscape which requires more than a philosopher to explain. In this case it is undoubtedly, for some reason, one of exalted expectation.

  Hervey Allen

  Book, Expectations, Skylines

  Hervey Allen (1933). “Anthony Adverse”

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• A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing one side of a landscape illuminated by the sun, and one overshadowed by clouds, and illuminated only by the diffused light of the atmosphere.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Clouds

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.77, GENERAL PRESS

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• The hostility of this landscape teaches me how to be quiet and unobtrusive, how to find grace among spiders with a poisonous bite. I sat on a lone boulder in the midst of the curlews. By now, they had grown accustomed to me. This too, I found encouraging-that in the face of stressful intrusions, we can eventually settle in. One begins to almost trust the intruder as a presence that demands greater intent toward life. On a day like today when the air is dry and smells of salt, I have found my open space, my solitude, and sky. And I have found the birds who require it.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Smell, Space, Air

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• A few birds flew out from the mountains and glided for a while without sound. Standing out against the sky on high slopes beyond a range of low hills, they saw an endless herd of deer, rendered mute by distance. The landscape was reminiscent of a cardboard cutout, but on a huge scale, which gave the impression they were the ones who had become miniatures...All three of them were equally lost.

  Cesar Aira

  Distance, Sky, Bird

  César Aira (2013). “The Hare”, p.239, New Directions Publishing

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• In the emerging, highly programmed landscape ahead, you will either create the software or you will be the software. It's really that simple: Program, or be programmed. Choose the former, and you gain access to the control panel of civilization. Choose the latter, and it could be the last real choice you get to make.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Real, Simple, Civilization

  Douglas Rushkoff (2010). “Program Or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age”, p.7, OR Books

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• One of the things I learned on the street was to trust life and to keep hands off of it, and that feeling continues in the rest of the works that I do, the portrait, the landscapes, or any interest that I have. Things are good enough as they are, there's no reason to tamper with them.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Hands, Feelings, Portraits

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• And so we polish our own lives, creating landscapes and canyons and peaks with the very silt we try to avoid, the dirt we disavow or hide or deny. It is the dirt of our lives—the depressions, the losses, the inequities, the failing grades in trigonometry, the e-mails sent in fear or hate or haste, the ways in which we encounter people different from us—that shape us, polish us to a heady sheen, make us in fact more beautiful, more elemental, more artful and lasting.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Beautiful, Hate, Loss

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• A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on their backs, and starving ponies cropping the mud. It is a landscape running with outcasts and escapees, with Afghans, Turks and Kurds: with scapegoats, scarred with bottle and burn marks, limping from the cities with broken ribs. The life forms here are rejects, or anomalies: the cats tipped from speeding cars, and the Heathrow sheep, their fleece clotted with the stench of aviation fuel.

  Hilary Mantel

  Running, Cat, Sheep

  "Beyond Black". Book by Hilary Mantel, 2005.

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• The landscape is a reflection of the inner life. Since I can't shoot the inner life, all I can shoot is the exterior but I know that when I'm filming outside, I'm filming inside. I can only really touch the inside through the mise-en-scene. So through the mise-en-scene of the outside we can explore the inside

  Bruno Dumont

  Reflection, Scene, Inner Life

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• You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will be able to see in these the likeness of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, woods, great plains, hills and valleys in great variety; and expressions of faces and clothes and an infinity of things which you will be able to reduce to their complete and proper forms. In such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of bells, in whose stroke you may find every named word which you can imagine.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Wall, Creativity, Clothes

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• The landscape of my childhood was one of fierce occupation by trees.

  Janisse Ray

  Childhood, Tree, Occupation

  Janisse Ray (2003). “Wild Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on Home”

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• I believe there need to be women visual in our every day landscape, working hard and doing their own thing, whether you like it or not, whether it's acceptable or not...I especially hope to inspire young women because often I feel like so much emphasis is put on how beautiful you are, and how thin you are, and not a lot of emphasis is put on what you can do and how smart you are. I'd like to change that, change the emphasis of what's important when looking at a woman.

  Margaret Kilgallen

  Beautiful, Smart, Believe

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