Quotes About Landscape

This landscape gave him assurance. A fair field holding life. It was the religion of peace. It would die if its timid eyes were compelled to see blood. He conceived Nature to be a woman with a deep aversion to tragedy.

As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors.

Currahee was more a hill than a mountain, but it rose 1,000 feet above the parade ground and dominated the landscape.] A few minutes later, someone blew a whistle. We fell in, were ordered to change to boots and athletic trunks, did so, fell in again—and then ran most of the three miles to the top and back down again." They lost some men that first day. Within a week, they were running—or at least double-timing—all the way up and back.

I quickly learned that people in this mountainous region aren't early risers, preferring for the sun to take the chill off the landscape before doing much stirring around.

Mongolia, which he described as "Montana in the seventeenth century.

that the hungover eye had a weird ability to find the ugliest things in any given landscape.

I love a lot of Colorado and upper Utah. I think some of the most beautiful terrain is upper BC.

I love just how beautiful Vancouver is. I mean, everywhere you look it's just mountains and ocean.

Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape.

If there is a worm in the heart, & chamber it has bitten out, I will protect that emptiness until it is large enough. In it will be a light the color of steel & landscape, into which the traveler might set out.

Geographical context is often thought about in terms of national or political territories, physical landscapes, or exotic places.

What cultural geography seeks to do, therefore, is explore the intersections of context and culture.

The nettles and cow parsley came up in swathes, the bindweed trumpeting through the hedges

In a sacred landscape, only time is profane.

Pro?imo redom sve vrste zadovoljstava što ih takvo putovanje pruža. Putuješ li sa ženom? - Da. - Zna?i, jedno zadovoljstvo manje. Ostaju: krajobrazí, kazališta, muzeji i obiteljski posjeti.

The change that had occurred in the political landscape was profound and dramatic and historic, and would affect the nation for years and years to come.

In this case some living creature must have seen the earth from a great height. The account is too accurate to have been the product of pure imagination. Who could have possibly said that the land looked like porridge and the sea like a water trough if some conception of the globe from above had not existed? Because the earth actually does look like a jigsaw puzzle of porridge and water troughs from a great height.

And at five o'clock in the morning we left to drive to Old Tucson, and I sat with my mouth open in the van. I was stunned by the beauty of that country.

at the sight of the snow that capped the highest crags.

Borges mira a Buenos Aires desde un espacio recordado, un espacio mítico que él mismo, más que recibir del pasado, impulsa como su propia novedad en la literatura argentina: la ciudad criolla que persiste en la ciudad moderna, la llanura pampeana que se refleja en el patio, en los cercos vivos del suburbio, en las calles "sin vereda de enfrente", es decir las calles que tocan la pampa y se pierden en la extensión de un paisaje familiar.

Attentiveness is hard to sustain, however. That's why backpacking remains an essential practice for me. It requires a consistent mindfulness and self-presence. It demands my keeping an eye on the trail, attending to variations in the terrain and weather patterns, noticing changes in my body as weariness rises or blisters start to form. It necessitates a reading of the entire landscape, learning to dance and flow with the interconnectedness of its details.

The high desert landscape of New Mexico is a sparse terrain, bearing the trace of stories long forgotten. It's a good place to study the parlance of wind and flowing water, to ponder ravens on the wing and the play of shadows among the rocks. The land here cuts through you like a knife, enticing you to relinquish one trusted language for another- or for none at all.

Don't get me wrong, I like the countryside. In fact, some of my best friends are geographical features.

Immerse yourself in the mesmerising patchwork of flatland invaded by water, desolate roads of industrial obsolescence, and a dark history