Quotes About Landscape

Anything more than 500 yds from the car just isn't photogenic.

The country, in respect of the lying of it, is both champaign and hilly, like many places in England.

Todos estamos tan llenos de retratos interiores, tan llenos de paisajes no vividos.

Ask any child from Chile to sketch something, anything at all. Before any human figure, a cloud, a tree, they'll fill the upper space with an array of jagged peaks.

I've never been to the Himalayas, and I'm not really interested in them. I'm more interested in a dirty old quarry in Lancashire, and by god, they can be dirty.

In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.

At HSN, entertainment has quickly become a core part of who we are and is a key differentiator from others in the retail landscape.

Peoria is such a seemingly quintessential American city, and I had always wanted to draw on that in either my fiction or in nonfiction. The Midwest is also a landscape that I have always been infatuated with, perhaps because it's the first one I can truly remember.

Scotland's a pretty place. I mean, as long as it ain't raining.

There's a whole range of words that people use about landscape. Pastoral? Idyll? I can't stand them.

I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens.

Canada in general is a beautiful country.

Landscape architecture is basically geodesign; it's designing geography. And yet geodesign is not only done by landscape architects, it's done by some of the world's largest corporations.

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

Georgia is one of the best states there is.

We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape.

Germany's fascinating. It's a really rich landscape to film and dramatise.

I know when I'm not dancing, and I go home, I usually work with my dad, who's an electrician. So I do stuff like that. I used to be a landscape gardener. I loved that job. But I'd like to be involved with entertainment. Singing or something, I guess.

Golf course design is exciting.

I love when architects build a golf course that compliments the landscape rather than intrudes upon it.

O meu gosto, que é provavelmente a antítese de um gosto tolerante, está longe de o poder aprovar na totalidade: em geral, aprovar não está nos meus hábitos, prefiro contradizer ou até não dizer absolutamente nada... É o que eu faço em relação a culturas inteiras, em relação a livros,- e também a cidades e paisagens.

not before it sets off soft pink shades in stucco and stones, turns the mountains from sun burnt orange to shadowed blue.

It's about what humans need to be happy. Sure, we evolved to live in complex interdependent social groups, but before that, we were nomads, pursuing resource opportunities in an open, sparsely populated landscape. That means for some people, solitude and independence are primary values.

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.