“ With the mining sites, I found a subject matter that carried forth my fascination with the undoing of the landscape, in terms of both its formal beauty and its environmental politics. David Maisel
“ 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… Michael Pollan
“ Now, wilderness can be seen as a useful fiction, a fiction constructed by John Muir and his heirs and deployed to keep places from being destroyed by resource extraction and wholesale development. Rebecca Solnit
“ Thomas Merton wrote, there is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues. There is always an enormous temptation in all of life to diddle around making i… Annie Dillard
“ 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. Stephen King
“ By now, at the end of a sloping alley, we had reached the shores of a vast marsh. Some unknown quality in the sparkling water had stained its whole bed a bright yellow. Green leaves, of such a sour br… R. Murray Gilchrist
“ The water glittered under the moon’s careful watch, and, in the distance, steeples cut stark black silhouettes into the landscape of the distant city. Katherine McIntyre
“ Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things Laurie Lee
“ As she gobbled up the miles, big ravines appeared before her, their starving mouths open for the swallow. R.J. Lawrence
“ It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence was far from me. The charm of her voice no longer murmured in my ear. Wilkie Collins
“ The campus spreads around him like the verdant pleasure garden of an ancient king. He is enraptured by the enormous trees that lift branches like cathedral roofs overhead, shoot roots like polished ba… Nayomi Munaweera
“ As the darkness deepened, the sky was streaked with veins of red, the last low beats of a dying sun. Against this scarlet canopy the hulk of the Rust Road's twin peaks stood tall, mountains of metal,… Dean F. Wilson
“ Crossing the Fens by boat there comes the realisation that water not earth or sky is the natural element in this landscape. Stephanie Green
“ I watched the surrounding landscape with great curiosity, and I wanted to discover the words that could describe all its unspoiled beauty. Daniel J. Rice
“ The village lay in the hollow, and climbed, with very prosaic houses, the other side. Village architecture does not flourish in Scotland. The blue slates and the grey stone are sworn foes to the pictu… Mrs. Oliphant
“ How can you care about the image of a landscape, when you show by your deeds that you don't care for the landscape itself? William Morris
“ The hand of nature was stretching itself out towards him, for the tall grass on the slopes of the Bulashah Hills was in sight, and he had opened his heart to it, lifted by the cool breeze that wafted… Mulk Raj Anand
“ But here, the rain was just another part of the landscape. Like it was the thing that lived here and we were merely visitors. Megan Miranda
