Quotes About Landscape

The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter.

The view, though. The view. It is undeniably exhilarating.

...and the country is like a great unfolded mantle with a green velvet cape bordered with a fringe of silver.

The word "landmark" is from the old English "landmearc", meaning 'an object in the landscape which, by its conspicuousness, serves as a guide in the direction of one's course.

Dark spruce frowned on either side of the frozen waterway.

Nature has wrought with a bolder hand in America.

...landscape is a work of the mind. Its scenery is built up as much from strata of memory as from layers of rock.

Dawn raced like fire across the savanna.

Nature and man are opposed in Spain.

The greenest of pastures are right here on earth.

I love Ireland. I feel very at peace there. It's just magical and beautiful.

Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.

...with you, I find peace from pain - You are gentle and healing like the landscape—like rain...

My veins do not end in me but in the unanimous blood of those who struggle for life, love, things, landscape and bread, the poetry of all.

One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass Cannot keep the form Where the mountain hare has lain.

I am very fond of the people, landscape, poetry, music, history and the Guinness. Being there makes me think of my mother and my grandmother - always sentimental and warm thoughts.

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona.

If there was a road I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.

Under bare Ben Bulben's headIn Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid.

The dream of an unworked natural landscape is very much the fantasy of people who have never themselves had to work the land to make a living.

Repeatedly in the nineteenth century, western cities came into being when eastern capital created remote colonies in landscapes that as yet contained relatively few people. Movements of capital helped explain why large cities developed so much more quickly in the West than Turner's evolutionary frontier stages suggest.

By what peculiar twist of perception, I wondered, had I managed to see the plowed fields and second-growth forests of southern Wisconsin—a landscape of former prairies now long vanished—as somehow more "natural" than the streets, buildings, and parks of Chicago? All represented drastic human alterations of earlier landscapes.