Quotes About Landscape

It's the sun that makes a landscape, drawing out its color, defining its contours, giving it its spirit.

Here in our mountains, the snow falls even on the maple leaves.

It was a stern night landscape. The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void. As the stars came nearer, the sky retreated deeper and deeper into the night color.

He wondered whether the flowing landscape was not perhaps symbolic of the passage of time.

I love this landscape, the literary man began while they were walking through an irregular forest of pillars. The only things here are /things/. The paint of meaning is peeled off. The things here have refused to be of any assistance at all to men.

The river split this finger of land in half throughout its length, and the airport was on the other side.

I adore Dartmoor, where I grew up, and the Cotswolds are amazing.

Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year.

I like the Patagonia in Argentina.

Arizona is really cool but I couldn't stay there for too long.

Para los enamorados es un placer infinito encontrar en los accidentes de un paisaje, en la transparencia del aire y en los aromas de la tierra la poesía que anida en su alma. La naturaleza habla por ellos.

fangosa. El paisaje es agresivo, y reina en él un silencio de muerte. Al atardecer, sin embargo

at a time when ethical lapses and blatant crimes pervade the political and economic and clerical landscapes (and has there ever been a time when, or a place where, such malfeasance was absent?), well-trained investigative journalists are essential for the survival of democratic institutions.

In the morning, look out and let the landscape take up full residence in your heart before all is intervened by the sound of human voices.

Groynes divided the mostly sandy beach into neat compartments.

Sky glowing dull pink. Simmer dim, as the Shetlanders called

of Bloemendaal was said to be one of the most beautiful in Holland. I had never seen it, only the trees at

I thought about how we tilled and cultivated the land, planted trees on it, fenced it, built houses on it, and did everything we could to hold off the eternity of distance—anything to give the landscape some sort of human scale. No matter what we did to try and form the West, however, the West inevitably formed us instead.

A butte is taller than it is wide, whereas a mesa, like this one, is wider than it is tall.

Looks Like Tacoma Down There

When you go to the jungle in South Africa, it's tropical versus the dry heat of Cape Town - it's hard to believe it's the same country.

One city can look at other cities relative to their city and learn something. It's a matter of sharing the patterns of what exists in one society based on landscape or cultural values versus other cities.

It's my observation that gardeners and gardening for a very long time have had to take a back seat. Architects are very famous; they've got huge projects. What goes on in and around them has been relegated to a very minor role.

Rio's a beautiful city, a vibrant place, special place.