“ Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. Robert Hughes
“ DAD (Decide-Announce-Defend) remains the order of the day, with only a few inspiring models of EDD (Engage-Deliberate-Decide) available to us to demonstrate how very different things could be. Johnathon Porritt
“ Winters are a desolate time where all senses are wiped away, and here in Canada, this is especially true. All smells are sucked clean from the air, leaving only a harsh, icy crispness. Colours are str… Rebecca McNutt
“ When ideas evaporate, when shapes fade and forms lose their integrity, our imagination can create an outlandish setting and convert everything into a hazy, misty Turner landscape. ("Back garden of a d… Erik Pevernagie
“ Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything… Harper Lee
“ I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of ligh… Denis Diderot
“ He loved to meditate on a land laid waste, Britain deserted by the legions, the rare pavements riven by frost, Celtic magic still brooding on the wild hills and in the black depths of the forest, the… Arthur Machen
“ Architecture was what you had instead of landscape, a signal of loss, of imitation. Europe had it in spades... Tim Winton
“ It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible. Cate Blanchett
“ Sometimes, when one is moving silently through such an utterly desolate landscape, an overwhelming hallucination can make one feel that oneself, as an individual human being, is slowly being unraveled… Haruki Murakami
“ ...landscape is a work of the mind. Its scenery is built up as much from strata of memory as from layers of rock. simon schma
“ Though American scenery is destitute of many of those circumstances that give value to the European, still it has features, and glorious ones, unknown to Europe...the most distinctive, and perhaps the… Thomas Cole
“ Think of a globe, a revolving globe on a stand. Think of a contour globe, whose mountain ranges cast shadows, whose continents rise in bas-relief above the oceans. But then: think of how it really is.… Annie Dillard
“ It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet. Thomas Hardy
“ The planting of [orchards] represents a reduction of a complex ecology into the monocultural grid of modern agriculture, and the transformation of a complex symbiosis with the land into the simpler pi… Rebecca Solnit
“ There is no place like the beach... where the land meets the sea and the sea meats the sky Umair Siddiqui
“ To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer. Ansel Adams
“ Pescatore marveled at the seascape. It gave him vertigo. The wind deployed cloud formations. The sun seared the Moroccan coastline. He had read a line once about "the lion-colored hills of Africa." We… Sebastian Rotella