Quotes About Landscape

London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

Music feels so environmental to me, especially the process of working with synths or mixing. I started thinking about music as a psychological landscape as well. It's a landscape of the mind.

If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the U.S., realize they're wrecking their own kids' lives, there will be a mass change in value.

I grew up in the northernmost parts of New Jersey, known more for lush forests and old farmland than industrial wastelands and fist pumping.

Well, I think it's important to have some kind of a narrative engine that pushes the audience through the landscape. But I love films like 'Apocalypse Now,' which is a very mood driven film. It's a magnetic force that's pulling them through.

I cried when I saw how flat Toledo was.

I don't want to live in Los Angeles. The city depresses me! It is too flat. There are too many cars.

There are characteristics of Central Florida you don't see anywhere else. It's quite beautiful.

My dad was born in Desertmartin at the foot of Slieve Gallion.

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

I think of Canada, first and foremost, in terms of space. The amount of space available is breathtaking.

Cuando sale el sol en Yorkshire, es la región más soleada del mundo. Le

And if any landscape can provide darkness, with a very real hint of menace, it is most surely the Fens.

La pelouse partait de la plage et grimpait sur cinq cents mètres jusqu'à la porte d'entrée, enjambait des cadrans solaires, des sentiers pavés de briques et des jardins flamboyants, atteignait enfin la maison et se brisait contre ses murs, dans une explosion de vigne vierge, comme emportée par son élan

The terrain enforced its own rhythms.

A sophisticated human can become primitive. What this really means is that the human's way of life changes. Old values change, become linked to the landscape with its plants and animals. This new existence requires a working knowledge of those multiplex and cross-linked events usually referred to as nature. It requires a measure of respect for the inertial power within such natural systems.

She saw and yet did not see the evening's banked colors across meadow and river. She heard and yet did not hear the

The real wealth of a planet is in its landscape, how we take part in that basic source of civilization—agriculture.

The water searched through rolling hills

All around the dome lay hills mangy with melting snow which reflected mottled wet blueness from the small blue-white sun hanging at the meridian.

I saw the black seam of your stocking Running down the side of the mountain like a creek I put the whiskey down and listened from "Blue Yodel of the Desperado

The jet roared on. After a while Frank gestured out the window. "We're having beautiful flying weather, Joe. Just look at Cape Cutlass down there." Below them, the cape spread out in bright sunlight. Not a cloud blocked their view. They could see every turn and twist of the coast, every cove and inlet, for miles in either direction. The landscape zipped past beneath the wing tips as the plane streaked north. Joe

Rolling country, not yet quite mountainous, with woods and lakes, is what I like best.