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Quotes About Landscape

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
Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm just starting to imagine.
~ Jim Jarmusch
In the new music landscape, with is the democratization of the internet and music in general, I think it can be a lot more collaborative.
~ Adrian Grenier
Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss
~ W. H. Auden
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
~ Ansel Adams
REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
~ Ambrose Bierce
To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.
~ J. M. W. Turner
I'm interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire
~ Gregory Crewdson
There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast
~ Paul Scott Mowrer
Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.
~ Marcus Terentius Varro
Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better.
~ Juha Vaatainen
When you're outside, and everything is highland, it's like nature has its own sound, and that's one of my favorite sounds.
~ Aurora Aksnes
Deserts look beautiful and green fields look beautiful too. Nature is genius because it knows how to look beautiful in every way.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
~ Rachel Carson
The national park is the best idea America ever had.
~ James Bryce
The most beautiful landscape cannot hold my fascinated attention as much as nature by the seaside and all that is connected with water.
~ Lyonel Feininger
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
Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
~ Alexander Pope
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
The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.
~ Helen Keller
Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
~ Jack Nicklaus
Arkansas is really, really nice. Its got the nature feel.
~ Kris Allen
Rather than think about fields producing food, and the rest of the land producing everything else, we need to think about managing integrated, multifunctional, landscapes
~ Tim Benton
I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.
~ Wallace Stevens