“The streets of L.A. undulate over short hills as though a finger is poking the landscape from underneath ... laid over this crosshatch are streets meandering on the diagonal creating a multitude of ways to get from one place to another by traveling along the hypotenuse. These are the avenues of the tryst which enable Acting Student A to travel the eighteen miles across town to Acting Student B's garage apartment in nine minutes flat after a hot-blooded phone call at midnight.” WayActingStreetsMinutesStudentsCreatingTownsHotFingersPhonesMilesNineHillsLandscapeFlatsLos AngelesApartmentMultitudesMidnightAvenuesEighteenPhone CallsGarageDiagonal Author:Steve Martin
“I do not see in what way the face of a man should be a less interesting landscape than any other. A man, the physical person of a man, is a little world, like any other a country, with its towns, and suburbs.. ..As a rule what is needed in a portrait is a great deal of the general, and very little of the particular.” MenWorldWayShouldLittlesPersonsCountryFacesInterestingDealsParticularNeededTownsLandscapePortraitsSuburbs Author:Jean Dubuffet
“If there is a lack of specificity in Grossman's description of the town and the walkers, and if the story perhaps sometimes becomes lost and confusing, then it is because the landscape and its inhabitants are really shadows, creatures of an interior world, whose journey and whose quest are within. Falling Out of Time is short, and clearly a deeply personal book, but its importance and impact ought not to be underestimated.” IfsWorldBookSometimesStoriesFallLostJourneyOughtCreaturesShadowImportanceTownsImpactLandscapeDescriptionQuestsInteriorsConfusingWalkersUnderestimatedSpecificity Author:Ian Sansom
“Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.” PeopleCitiesMovementEuropeTownsDown AndRoseSpreadSmellLandscapeUrbanOrganizeSlow DownSlow FoodUrban Landscape Author:Carl Honore
“You don't go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that's benign conquest. It's a glorious way of exploring other landscapes and other cultures in a very life-affirming way.” WayEndsPlayCultureTownsLandscapeGloriousExploringConquestApplauseBenignAffirmingOther CulturesLife Affirming Author:Ben Kingsley
“I think the future of architecture does not lie so much in continuing to fill up the landscape, as in bringing back life and order to our cities and towns.” ThinkingDoeLyingOrderCitiesTownsArchitectureLandscapeContinuingCities And Towns Author:Gottfried Bohm
“A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses, trees, tiles leaves, grasses, ants, legs of ants and so on to infinity. All this is subsumed under the name of landscape.” HouseNamesTreeTownsLegsLandscapeGrassInfinityAntsAfarTiles Author:Blaise Pascal
“I moved to New York when I was almost 21 and I've lived there for almost eight years, now I have a totally different relationship to L.A. There's like all this space and it's so beautiful seeing all these different landscapes and all my friends are here so now I really like it so much but my adjustment period was a little like "What a strange town".” YearsLittlesDifferentBeautifulSpaceSeeingNew YorkStrangePeriodsMy FriendsTownsMovedEightLandscapeAdjustmentDifferent Relationships Author:Emma Stone
“I’d spent my whole life waiting to awake on an ordinary morning in the town that was destined to be my home, in the arms of the woman I was destined to love, knowing the people and doing the work that would make up the changing but essentially invariable landscape of my particular destiny.” PeopleWholeHomeWaitingDestinyMorningKnowingParticularArmsOrdinaryTownsWhole LifeLandscapeAwakeDestined Book:Wonder Boys Source: Wonder Boys
“There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we return to such places in our minds irresistibly. There are certain villages and towns, mountains and plains that, having seen them walked in them lived in them even for a day, we keep forever in the mind's eye. They become indispensable to our well-being; they define us, and we say, I am who I am because I have been there, or there.” MindWellsHas BeensHappensEyeRememberCertainMemoriesForeverReturnBecomingMountainTravelTownsExtraordinaryWho I AmWell BeingLandscapeNovelistsVillageIndispensableDefiningIrresistibleEssayistsI Am Who I Am Author:N. Scott Momaday