Quotes About Landscape

Western Nebraska is the only place in all my travels where I have seen the dust blowing and the rain falling at the same time.

The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar.

I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American.

The Western, when I do one, will be one long, continuous story.

I wrote my senior essay on the Santa Fe Writer's Colony and my dissertation on sacred landscapes - the Grand Canyon, the Dakota Badlands. As a setting, I love the West. I just love that western landscape.

I hope there is a place for me in the country landscape, but I'm not too precious about it, either.

In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.

As a lifelong Oregonian, I prefer our forests green, not black.

I can't think of any more important issue. If we get this right, we'll not only preserve our landscape for future generations we'll be able to generate I think more investment and more job opportunities in the inland and we sure as hell need those jobs.

My delight in things is definitely Caribbean. It has to do with landscape and food. The fact that my language may have a metrical direction is because that's the shape of the language. I didn't make that shape.

Denmark is, like, the flattest country on Earth.

I like landscape, I guess. It's kind of a game to see how you can describe it.

I'm a settler, and I live in the Judean desert.

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements.

I am old enough to remember the enormous fight over Tate Modern. It is such a part of our cultural landscape now, we forget the opposition to it.

In battle, topography is fate.

I do believe that clean air, clean water, and wild mountains and old forests are our birthrights; that a wild and healthy landscape is, or should be, a constitutional right, a freedom, to be protected and celebrated. And as with any right, there is an attendant responsibility.

You're in a physical landscape you share with this bizarre and fundamentally alien creature, not alien because she's female but alien because you're a fool in love and there's nothing not alien about that.

the landscape retains its grip on the collective imagination, offering the promise of tranquillity, open space, freedom from responsibility; a rustic souvenir of permanence and stability. Britons treasure their shrinking countryside like a family heirloom wrapped in silk, locked away in the secret compartment of a writing table, protected from foreign invasion for most of a millennium.

Breaking out beyond London's green belt was, and remains, like crossing the border into another country altogether.

Cossacks, and Arabs huddled in nearby fields while the cowboys rounded

The power of the enlightened being to affect his or her environment is immense. The enlightened mind can landscape worlds, preserve planets, save whole environments, create buddhaverses. The enlightened being is almost like a god. (p. 150)