Quotes About Landscape

look across the culvert that holds the greenish residue of the Rio Grande

A thin watery sun laid its gunmetal shine on the country below.

Our life is a constant journey, from birth to death. The landscape changes, the people change, our needs change, but the train keeps moving. Life is the train, not the station.

Geography is the art of the mappable.

Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than in, or on, the most beautiful building I know.

My art recognizes the human place, the human context - especially in Britain, which is a landscape so worked by people for thousands of years, written, deeply ingrained with the presence of people.

This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under the haze as under a light coat of varnish.

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

If I was whisked away... I think I could put up with anything, except not seeing the Australian landscape. It would be a torture to have it cut off.

Western art has a certain relationship to nature.

Music, art, landscape - these are all things I draw inspiration from.

Man in Canadian art is rarely in command of his environment or ever at home in it.

Growing up I thought all countries look, were required to look, completely different?Congo was all jungle, robust and wet and green, Germany was all black forests, Russia was white, all of it Siberian. But every country now seemed to offer a little of every other country, and every given landscape, I finally realized, existed somewhere in the U.S.

Through the smal tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the trees calligraphic.

Coming from Minnesota, a land of white people who eat white food in a frequently white landscape, Chocolate City, with its black middle class, political leadership, and cultural legacy was a complete mystery to me.

The land, indifferent to human boundaries, flowed on unchanged.

I thought the trees down in Lady Zelana's country were about as big as a tree could get," he said, "but the ones around here are so tall that they probably tickle the moon's tummy when she goes by.

La luna si levò sopra la prateria e sembrava succhiare via tutti i colori dal paesaggio circostante; adesso tutto appariva diverso. I cespugli lungo il letto asciutto non erano verdi ma neri e avevano un che di minaccioso.

He was around where the tree-line bulged herniatically out toward the end of the West Courts' fencing.

A plain is what a mountain aims to be: the closest you can come to being in outer space while yet having your feet on this planet.

exploring Arizona's mazelike Mogollon canyon range,

She was supposed to be writing an essay on how geography had shaped the great battles of the past, but she was having trouble concentrating. In fact, all she'd managed so far was a title. "How Geography Has Shaped the Great Battles of the Past.

The bluff was cut as if a child had taken a spoon to the rim of a three-layer cake.

A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.