Quotes About Landscape

The hills,Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun.

forest to their fields of corn and tobacco on the fertile slopes and rich bottom-lands. The

I locate Essential Spain at last - the cruel winds, the grinding poverty, the unforgiving landscape. It could be Wales.

Truth had hanged the way the landscape had changed to accommodate progress, altered by each generation to its purpose. He had learned from the talk of old men that there was no such thing as truth, truth was always shaded by perception and expectation.

That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.

If, looking back upon the lengthened way My feet have trod, since, long ago, I left Those well-known shores, and when mine eyes are filled With tears, I take the pencil in its turn, and shading light the landscape spread below..."

They came silently as ghosts themselves, swept along like leaves being scattered about them in the scurrying east wind. Yet their running forms seemed carved out by the wild landscape, in the natural facts of evolution, so they were almost perfectly camouflaged, shielded by the deepening colors of autumn change.

As the ordinary violence of dawn sweeps across the lower Coromandel coast, a sprawling village comes into view.

mechanical reinterpretations of human affairs not only lack explanatory power, they are morally wrong as well, for in effect they deny the humanity of the participants, casting them and their ideas merely as side effects of the landscape. Diamond

Carquinez Strait

Sometimes when you're driving down a back road in Utah, you think if there is a God, then he probably had something to do with all of this. It's just that fucking beautiful.

Dawn Landscape The last watch has sounded in the Amble-Awe. Radiant color spreads above Solar-Terrace Mountain, then cold sun clears high peaks. Mist and cloud linger across layered ridges, And earth split-open hides river sails deep. Leaves clatter at heaven's clarity. I listen, And face deer at my bramble gate-so close Here, we touch our own kind in each other. Tu Fu

It was last year as it is this year, and it will be the same next year. That details about diet are debated at the frontiers of our knowledge does nothing to alter the landscape of the far more copious common ground. 2,3

Reading, after all, is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction, a matter of engagement in a society that seems to want nothing more that for us to disengage.

God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.

God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay.

God tipped the country and all the fruits and nuts rolled west.

I always thought of this as God's country.

It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wane.

Trails need to be reconstructed. Please avoid building trails that go uphill.

Too many rocks in the mountains.

If you design something pretty with good golf shots in it, then I think that's the combination that creates a really nice golf course.

The scenery was very beautiful. But I did not see The Great Wall [of China].

What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes.