Top Landscape Quotes

... and isn't the world a treasure in itself? A spectacle glittering every single day, without a concern if anyone's watching or not. It simply goes on, elegantly, letting nature have its way. We only...

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...

Landscape Definition

(n.) A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.

(n.) A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual or fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc.

(n.) The pictorial aspect of a country.

The sky was the yellow color of old cheese and the clouds flew across it, as if they had seen something horrifying in the desert wastes where they had so lately been.

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

Agriculture changes the landscape more than anything else we do. It alters the composition of species. We don't realize it when we sit down to eat, but that is our most profound engagement with the re...

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.

I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress.

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.

Landscape architecture is basically geodesign; it's designing geography. And yet geodesign is not only done by landscape architects, it's done by some of the world's largest corporations.

I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.

In my time in the U.S. Senate, I tried to craft an energy policy... I will be part of President Obama's efforts to achieve energy independence and enhance the landscape. I am also part of his reform a...

Eduardo Galeano notes that America was conquered, but not discovered, that the men who arrived with a religion to impose and dreams of gold never really knew where they were, and that this discovery i...

Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.

The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place. Certainly finding a place that you like or discovering something unus...

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.

The sky's gray and there's mizzle. It's so soft on my skin--it's nothing like rain. It's even softer than the lightest drizzle! Lift my face up, so it can kiss my skin." The Panopticon

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

The ouster of Jill Abramson as executive editor of 'The New York Times' sent shock waves through the media landscape. Reports that she was fired thanks in part to a soured relationship based on the 'T...

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river only the landscape on either bank seems to change.