Best Landscape Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 26

“I love Australia passionately. I love our landscape. It's influenced most of my work, really. Almost everything I've written is about the landscape. Trying to find, the sacred, the spiritual in it.”

Trying Art Spiritual Written Sacred Landscape Australia

Author:Peter Sculthorpe

“A pretty girl is better than a plain one. A leg is better than an arm. A bedroom is better than a living room. An arrival is better that a departure. A birth is better than a death. A chase is better than a chat. A dog is better than a landscape. A kitten is better than a dog. A baby is better than a kitten. A kiss is better than a baby. A pratfall is better than anything.”

Girl Rooms Dog Baby Arms Birth Kissing Legs Landscape Bedroom Living Room Departure Kitten Arrivals Pretty Girl

Author:Preston Sturges

“On this waterlogged landscape....are scattered palaces and hovels....It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation produces its marvels and that civilised man returns to the savage.”

Men Humans Spirit Perfect Cities Produce Return Landscape Savages Human Spirit Palaces Civilisation Civilised

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes. . . . it was essential that they should keep on going to the country, even though they hated it.”

Should Country Nature Class Essentials Decided Rate Busy Graves Landscape Hated Factories Defects Abolish Nature Love Lower Class

Book:The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world

Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world

“You can domesticate your body, but you can't domesticate your face - even by having a lift or having your nose bobbed. A face bears the reflection of our nature, which in the beginning is veiled by the attractiveness of youth. But as soon as youth begins to go, everything written on the face starts to come to the surface, and pretty soon it's engraved there. No landscape can equal a human face that's been molded by its own owner.”

Humans Body Faces Nature Written Youth Bears Equal Reflection Surface Your Body Landscape Lifts Noses Owners Your Face Attractiveness Human Faces Engraved

Author:Francoise Giroud

“REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.”

Art Stories Seems Nature Written Landscape Charm Realism Worms Measuring Toads Moles

Book:Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: and Other Stories

Source: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: and Other Stories

“There isn't a single person or landscape or subject which doesn't possess some interest, although it may not be immediately apparent. When a painter discovers this hidden treasure, other people are immediately struck by its beauty.”

People May Persons Interest Subjects Treasure Painter Landscape Single Person Hidden Treasure

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“A novel is like a window, open to an infinite landscape.”

Novel Window Infinite Landscape

Book:Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel

Source: Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political Novel

“If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.”

Ifs Ideas Feelings Beautiful House Given Water Tree Mountain Favors Landscape Combination

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small part. Think of the world in these terms, as larger in scale than the human. This is a healthy corrective to the commonplace view that people own the land, which exists to serve their purposes. Think big and live small.”

“Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see landscapes which otherwise would remain unknown to us like the landscapes of the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists.”

Knows World Art Artist Universe Views Seeing Moon Originals Thanks Landscape

Author:Marcel Proust

“I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.”

Feels Ends Humanity Painting Fine Landscape The End Of The Day Portraits One Love Vocal Mona Lisa

Author:Grimes

“I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for tens of thousands of years. Having that experience was necessary to my perception of how photography can look at the changes humanity has brought about in the landscape. My work does become a kind of lament.”

Years Looks Kind Doe I Can Humanity Space Changed Perception Photography Landscape Wilderness Lament

Author:Edward Burtynsky

“Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It's your move.”

Moving Opportunity Pieces Player Chess Landscape Chess Pieces

Author:Tony Robbins

“Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape”

Logic Landscape Geometry Cognition

Author:Kim Stanley

“Soap operas are such a great way to break-in to the industry. The diminishing landscape of daytime TV means its going to be harder for young talent to get discovered.”

Way Mean Young Break Talent Tvs Industry Harder Landscape Opera Soap Daytime Soap Operas Young Talent Daytime Tv

Author:Josh Duhamel

“The building is absolutely stunning. It is a magnificent and important piece of architecture that contributes greatly to the cultural landscape of Washington. It is one the best designed buildings in D.C. in the last decade.”

Important Lasts Pieces Building Decades Architecture Landscape Magnificent Stunning

Author:Zelda Fichandler

“Cloud computing is actually a spectrum of things complementing one another and building on a foundation of sharing. Inherent dualities in the cloud computing phenomenon are spawning divergent strategies for cloud computing success. The public cloud, hybrid clouds, and private clouds now dot the landscape of IT based solutions. Because of that, the basic issues have moved from 'what is cloud' to 'how will cloud projects evolve'.”

Issues Building Projects Solutions Foundation Moved Strategy Clouds Landscape Evolve Phenomenon Inherent Spectrum Duality Dots Divergent Hybrid Computing Cloud Computing

Author:Chris Howard

“Picturesque meant - he decided after careful observation of the scenerey that inspired Twoflower to use the word - that the landscape was horribly precipitous. Quaint, when used to describe the occasional village through which they passed, meant fever-ridden and tumbledown. Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, mean 'idiot'.”

Firsts Mean Use Used Decided Inspired Careful Observation Landscape Idiot Colour Village Occasional Fever Tourists Discworld Quaint Picturesque Rincewind

Book:The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)

Source: The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)

“Until we can insert a USB into our ear and download our thoughts, drawing remains the best way of getting visual information on to the page. I draw as a collagist, juxtaposing images and styles of mark-making from many sources. The world I draw is the interior landscape of my own personal obsessions and of cultures I have absorbed and adapted, from Latvian folk art to Japanese screens. I lasso thoughts with a pen. I draw a stave church or someone from Hello! magazine not because I want to replicate how they look, but because of the meaning they bring to the work.”

“In the context of the great debates about identity politics - are you gay or straight, nationalist or republican, British or English and so on - I would ask, "Do you ride a bike?" I love everything about the machine - the sensation of the tyres on the road, the mobility - and I love the fact that you have this intimate relationship with the elements, and the landscape.”

Facts Asks Identity Republican Gay Elements Machines British Debate Landscape Intimate Sensations Bike Bicycle Cycling Mobility Intimate Relationships Identity Politics Tyres

Author:Beatrix Campbell

“An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of his or her system in a straight line across the landscape; the point at which the anger is conquered is marked with a stick, bearing witness to the strength or length of the rage.”

Persons Lines Emotion Walking Offers Angry Sticks Rage Release Witness Landscape Length Customs Straight Lines Bearing Witness Angry Person

Author:Lucy R. Lippard

“The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.”

Long Long Time Concepts Architecture Landscape

Author:Antoine Predock

“Without imagination, you live in a small room with the windows closed. Imagination opens the windows and shows us landscapes, horizons that we would not otherwise perceive…I want education to empower people to see possibility.”

People Want Shows Imagination Rooms Possibility Window Landscape Perceive Empowering Horizon Small Rooms

Author:Maxine

“My veins do not end in me but in the unanimous blood of those who struggle for life, love, things, landscape and bread, the poetry of all.”

Ends Struggle Blood Bread Landscape Love Life Veins

Author:Roque Dalton

“I am in awe of the perpetual tumult of the sea. I am moved by the still place on the horizon where the sky begins. I am stirred by the soaring and dipping fields that make the landscape into a rumpled green counterpane. I thought I would never have such powerful feelings again. I thought I would live through the rest of my life having experiences, and thoughts, but I never thought I would again feel deeply-- I was convinced that my wounds had healed and become thick scars, essentially numb.”

Feels Stills Feelings Powerful Sea Sky Fields Green Moved Convinced Wounds Landscape Awe Horizon Scar Thick Perpetual Soar Healed Numb Tumult

Book:The Music Lesson: A Novel

Source: The Music Lesson: A Novel

“The landscape for business isn’t changing because of social media, it’s changing because consumer expectations are evolving.”

Social Media Expectations Social Media Consumers Landscape Evolve

Author:Brian Solis

“Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.”

Play Today Roles Middle Security International China Critical East Landscape Middle East Easter Interconnected International Peace Peace And Security

Author:Rick Larsen

“Senator Graham would have been very difficult to beat. He'd been governor for two terms. He's a U.S. Senator. He has a lot of friends; he's done a lot of favors to help a lot of people in Florida. So the fact that he's not running really does change the whole landscape in Florida.”

People Doe Has Beens Two Done Whole Facts Helping Running Difficult Term Change Beats Favors Landscape Governors Florida Senators Lots Of Friends

Author:Allen Boyd

“There has been much talk referencing what I consider conceptual reports like the Landscape of Choice and documents created as a result of the Great Valley Center.”

Has Beens Choices Results Landscape Reports Valleys Documents Eugenics Referencing

Author:Alan Autry

“Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber, a handsome and imaginative landscape, crowded with constant small changes of scene and full of little creeks winding with pools where shiners, crappies and catfish hover.”

Littles Country Opinion Scene Constant Contrary Hills Landscape Flats Pool Rolling Eastern Handsome Imaginative Crowded Iowa Creeks Timber Small Changes Catfish Rolling Hills

Author:Paul Engle

“I believe there's plenty of market for each; we're talking about an ecosystem that is going to support billions of devices, so a competitive landscape is good for consumers, developers, and the platforms alike. Apple brings a smooth elegance to its devices and platform, with the best marketplace experience to boot. Google brings a higher volume of devices as well as a more diverse ecosystem to interact with. The real story here is that Microsoft is nowhere to be seen, ending a two-decade monopoly and creating biggest opportunity for software startups probably ever.”

“If left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons. Should he succeed in that endeavor, he could alter the political and security landscape of the Middle East, which as we know all too well affects American security.”

“The fake Zionist [regime] will disappear from the landscape of geography.”

Israel Disappear Landscape Fake Regimes Geography Zionist

Author:Ali Khamenei

“As a farmer, man himself became closely attached to the landscape, firmly rooted to the soil that supported him. At times the soil seemed bountiful and kindly and again stubborn and unfriendly, but it was always a challenge to man's cunning.”

Men Challenges Landscape Soil Farmers Rooted Stubborn Cunning Unfriendly

Author:Charles Kellogg

“The greater number of landscapes I explored, the more it seemed that they had traits in common and that the essence of each was not its uniqueness but its similarity to others.”

Common Numbers Greater Essence Landscape Soil Traits Uniqueness Similarity

Author:J. B. Jackson

“The body is like the earth ... as vulnerable to overbuilding, being carved into parcels, cut off, overmined, and shorn of its power as any landscape.”

Feelings Body Hands Earth Power Cutting Fingers Vulnerable Landscape Touching Parcel

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage through a series of thoughts. The creates an odd consonance between internal and external passage, one that suggests that the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it. A new thought often seems like a feature of the landscape that was there all along, as though thinking were traveling rather than making.”

Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and then the shadow sweeps it away. You know you're alive. You take huge steps, trying to feel the planet's roundness arc between your feet.”

Knows Feels Trying Light Today Walks Steps Alive Journey Feet Planets Huge Walking Shadow Tricks Wander Landscape Excellent Unexpected Hiking Trekking January Strolling Arcs Sauntering

Book:The Abundance

Source: The Abundance

“The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty.”

Bigs Spiritual Cities Beauty Clear Protect Hunger Landscape Damage Homeland Big Cities Uncontrollable Uncontrollable Urge

Author:Fritz Todt

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

Character Landscape

Author:Fritz Todt

“It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of people ever really get the word about life, about living abundantly and successfully. Success in the important departments of life seldom comes naturally, no more naturally than success at anything - a musical instrument, sports, fly-fishing , tennis, golf, business, marriage, parenthood. But for some reason most people wait passively for success to come to them ..., living as other people are living in the unspoken, tacit assumption that other people know how to live successfully.”

“I usually just pick a genre of movie that I feel like saluting and then go off and come up with something that I can sort of pay homage to. That's the great thing about our show is we've sort of created a landscape for 'Psych' where we're kind of allowed to go off and give shout-outs to movies that we love, genres that we love.”

Love Giving Feels Kind I Can Shows Age Pay Picks Come Up Great Things Landscape Genre Homage Psych

Author:James Roday

“November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape.”

Country Christmas Weather Landscape Harvest Rice November Festive

Author:F. Sionil José

“Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Our many different cultures notwithstanding, there's something about the holidays that makes the planet communal. Even nations that do not celebrate Christmas can't help but be caught up in the collective spirit of their neighbors, as twinkling lights dot the landscape and carols fill the air. It's an inspiring time of the year.”

“The principal reason, invariably, most "successful" giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact, the worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday's turf.”

Way Reason Facts Change Company Successful Tools Fundamentals Yesterday Landscape Ran Giants Heels Principal Turf

Author:Tom Peters

“Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.”

Artist Process Cities Landscape Department Engineering Freeways

Author:Arthur Erickson

“The current anger at the march of turbines and pylons across the hills of Britain is not from nimbys. Government money has lubricated most backyard owners to support wind power. It comes from those who appreciate the beauty of the countryside and who question the industrial spoliation of miles of open landscape for a pitiful net gain to climate change.”

Government Support Wind Gains Appreciate Climate Climate Change Currents Miles Hills Landscape Britain Owners March Countryside Backyards Pitiful Turbines Wind Power

Author:Simon Jenkins

“Onshore wind turbines are visually a very considerable intrusion on any landscape.”

Wind Landscape Intrusion Turbines Wind Turbines

Author:Tim Yeo

“One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And this is a tremendous new pleasure and interest which invests every walk or drive with an added object. So many colours on the hillside, each different in shadow and in sunlight; such brilliant reflections in the pool, each a key lower than what they repeat; such lovely lights gilding or silvering surface or outline, all tinted exquisitely with pale colour, rose, orange, green or violet.”

Source: Thoughts and Adventures: Churchill Reflects on Spies, Cartoons, Flying, and the Future

Landscape Quotes

Related topics

Landscape Quotes