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Quotes About Landscape

Comenzar una novela es como abrir la puerta o un paisaje neblinoso; ves muy poco, pero hueles la tierra y sientes el soplo del viento.
~ Iris Murdoch
New Zealand is weird. I mean, it does not seem of this earth, not to me. It really is like something made up.
~ Peter Heller
If you're making films in New Zealand, you can't avoid the landscape. It's certainly more handsome than I am.
~ Sam Neill
I loved the pace of life and the majesty of New Zealand. It's similar to Scotland - but feels newer.
~ Mark Bonnar
New Zealand is breathtaking.
~ Edith Bowman
The freeways of America are like giant veins twisting and turning, rushing life from one zone to the next. The landscape is a giant body just lying there feeling the rumble.
~ Rhys Darby
We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren't doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs.
~ Jack Dangermond
I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick.
~ Nikita Khrushchev
Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4,000 miles long. St John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan, Italy than to Vancouver.
~ Simon Hoggart
Scenery here in Canada is by the mile, whereas in England it is by the foot. In England there is a great wealth of 'pretty bits'. In Canada there is a great lack of them. But there are grandeur, vastness and expansive views.
~ A. Brooker Klugh
The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.
~ Northrop Frye
There will always be an England While there's a country lane Wherever there's a cottage small Beside a field of grain.
~ Clark Ross Parker
His eminence was due to the flatness of the surrounding landscape.
~ John Stuart Mill
I think 'Hand to God' is going to change the landscape of Broadway. I think Broadway, truthfully, will never be the same.
~ Geneva Carr
Cape Town is a weird town. There's a mountain, and the sea, and a little city tucked into the side of the mountain.
~ Watkin Tudor Jones
Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Hurricane Irma devastated the U.S. Virgin Islands, leveling homes, knocking out power, and turning the landscape into a 'battered wasteland' where some say media coverage was minimal and help was late to arrive.
~ Elizabeth Flock
We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.
~ Dan Aykroyd
I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
~ Damian Lewis
I—I've never liked this place. Maybe because it's down in a hollow and you don't see the road.
~ Susan Glaspell
I've been to Golden Gate Park several times. It is beautiful and immense, bigger than Central Park in New York.
~ Susan Meissner
Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents' pots and pans, the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.
~ Susan Sontag
When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all around them and in between the hills there was a wide expanse of black bog. Stephen had never seen a landscape so calculated to reduce the onlooker to utter despair in an instant. "This is one of your kingdoms, I suppose, sir?" he said. "My kingdoms?" exclaimed the gentleman in surprize. "Oh, no! This is Scotland!
~ Susanna Clarke
The trees have a look of finding themselves in the wrong place, perhaps because they remember the river moving muddily behind the apple trees.
~ Susanna Moore