Quotes About Landscape

I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside.

I discovered that close to half the planet is 'pristine.' We live in towns such as London, Paris or Sao Paulo and have the impression that all the pristine areas are gone, but they are not.

I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.

Oswestry's a bit in the middle of nowhere - quite tough, and quite English, in the way border towns are.

You can trace the entire history of Britain by looking at gardens.

I grew up in a haunting postindustrial landscape where prehistoric ferns grew among tens of railway tracks surmounted by brilliant arc lights where birds nested and sang in the dead of night, because for them, it was day.

There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.

What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

Railways are irresistible bazaars, snaking along perfectly level no matter what the landscape, improving your mood with speed, and never upsetting your drink.

...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.

I am a good horse to travel, but not from choice a roadster. The landscape-painter uses the figures of men to mark a road. He would not make that use of my figure.

Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.

texan starting eternity: I never dreamed heaven would be so much like Texas. companion: Who said this was heaven?

Trees cover up a multitude of sins.

Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.

Playing Augusta is like playing a Salvador Dali landscape. I expected a clock to fall out of the trees and hit me in the face.

When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.

Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.

The nature of the place...whether high or low, moist or dry, whether sloping north or south, or bearing tall trees or low shrubs...generally gives hint as to its inhabitants.

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked).

There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.

The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about that country's soul ... A culture is no better than its woods.

The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.