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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. -- Ansel Adams
Horses make a landscape look beautiful. -- Alice Walker
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world. -- Georges Simenon
While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change. -- Max Muller
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself. -- Roberto Burle Marx
Landscape shapes culture -- Terry Tempest Williams
Landscape is history made visible. -- J. B. Jackson
Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy. -- William Hazlitt
Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological. -- Jim Hodges
Growing Literacy of the Heart and Mind Cultivates the Landscape of a Child's Future. -- Clyde Heath
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. -- Robert Hughes
Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference. -- Michael Heizer
Landscape consists in the multiple, overlapping intricacies and forms that exist in a given space at a moment in time. -- Annie Dillard
(Landscapes) are too close to painting. And TV has nothing to do with painting. It's just transmission. And you can't transmit a landscape, happily enough. -- Jean-Luc Godard
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. -- Alan Autry
But You know Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her that I look for fame - and all that the warmth of the imagination renders dear to Man. -- John Constable
Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I'm taking part in a noble tradition. -- Robert Genn
Landscape is the creation of the one God - his sensuous image and revelation, through the investigation of which, by science or its representation by art, men's hearts are lifted toward him. -- James Jackson Jarves
All gardening is landscape painting. -- William Kent
In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness. -- Samuel Beckett
The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape. -- Ban Ki-moon
I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is. -- Robert Plant
The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine. -- Paul Cezanne
For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces. -- Bridget Riley
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. -- Luis Barragan
The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background. -- Edith Wharton
Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process. -- Arthur Erickson
In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. -- Gerald Brenan
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. -- Marcel Proust
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape! -- Henry David Thoreau
We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape. -- Fritz Todt
The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does. -- Molly Parker
I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky. -- William Merritt Chase
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves. -- Derek Walcott
Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance. -- Charles Lindbergh
We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it. -- Lawrence Durrell
From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue. -- Salvatore Quasimodo
The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape. -- Leonard Cohen
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. -- Robert Lynd
The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible. -- Galen Rowell
What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional. -- Annie Leibovitz
We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art. -- Andy Warhol
Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day. -- Donald G. Mitchell
You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape. -- Woodrow Wilson
I think that more diversity is a good thing, and fresh points of view articulated by people who are committed to excellence in journalism is a beneficial change in the American media landscape. -- Al Gore
Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp. -- George Takei
I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there. -- William Wiley
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea. -- John Ciardi
New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy. -- Adam Savage
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama. -- John Roberts
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 unusual is a very sustaining thing in travel. -- Paul Theroux
In Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, and always beyond that the horizon. And there's this strange thing: you're never sort of hidden; you always feel exposed in that landscape. But it makes it very beautiful as well. -- Hannah Kent
First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot is simply a function of what these people might do or be. Everything has to flow from their personalities; otherwise it will not be emotionally engaging, or plausible. -- Robert Harris
The use of drones is rapidly transforming the way we go to war. On the battlefield, a squad leader can receive real-time data from a drone that enables him to view the landscape for miles in every direction, dramatically expanding the capabilities of what would normally have been a small and isolated unit. -- Michael Hastings
The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies - buying those houses and restoring them, and doing the three-generation thing, mouldering into the landscape, and the 'community,' identifying with the place in a familiar way. -- Peter York
When I was a kid, 'Land of the Lost' was my favorite show, just because it was - in the landscape of Saturday morning cartoons - it was so unique. It was a live-action show and kids were in it, these creatures, these Sleestaks and dinosaurs. Every week was a different adventure. I couldn't wait. I loved it so much. -- Will Ferrell
I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move. -- Olafur Eliasson
I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don't think it's true of people who've grown up in cities so much; you may love a building, but I don't think that you can love it in the way that you love a tree or a river or the colour of the earth; it's a different kind of love. -- Arundhati Roy
Democracy is an insecure landscape. -- Terry Tempest Williams
Hands are the heart's landscape. -- Pope John Paul II
I don't believe in the landscape. -- Fernando Pessoa
Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished. -- Rebecca Solnit
All forms of landscape are autobiographical, -- Charles Wright
You can't transmit a landscape, happily enough. -- Jean-Luc Godard
Dance is the landscape of man's soul. -- Martha Graham
Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill. -- David Hockney
Each city has its own culinary landscape. -- Padma Lakshmi
Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind. -- V. S. Pritchett
Stop destroying the landscape with your outfit. -- Rick Owens
Selection is the invention of the landscape painter. -- Henry Fuseli
A temple is a landscape of the soul. -- Joseph Campbell
Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape. -- Janet Fitch
Touch is the landscape / of what is possible. -- Kate Green
The new social landscape is rich with emotion. -- Brian Solis
Any landscape is a condition of the spirit. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape. -- John Milton
The landscape looks different from every blade of grass. -- Marty Rubin
Digital Darinism is already changing the landscape of business. -- Brian Solis
All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope. -- Rebecca Solnit
When strange objects shapes the landscape, we get fiction -- Umair Siddiqui
I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued. -- Galen Rowell
The Norfolk landscape sends a shiver through my soul.... -- Raffaella Barker
Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape" -- Kim Stanley Robinson
Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape -- Kim Stanley
We are a landscape of all we have seen. -- Isamu Noguchi
The West to me is where the landscape is, -- Lee Friedlander
A gust of wind went Nike across the flat landscape -- J.R. Ward
Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape. -- John Muir
The fake Zionist regime will disappear from the landscape of geography. -- Ali Khamenei
I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens. -- Robert Wilson
I think hypochondria always plays a part in the healthcare landscape. -- Carrie Brownstein
There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face. -- Irvin Kershner
Reading (...) is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction. -- David L. Ulin
A novel is like a window, open to an infinite landscape. -- Isabel Allende
People and things have edges, but where does a landscape stop? -- Myfanwy Pavelic
The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness. -- Paul Cezanne
The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself. -- Aldo Leopold
I love to get into a landscape and paint my horses. -- Ronnie Wood
To be a landscape painter is to be a perverse individual. -- Wolf Kahn
Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape. -- Edoardo Ponti
Music, art, landscape - these are all things I draw inspiration from. -- Josh McDermitt
The landscape of my childhood was one of fierce occupation by trees. -- Janisse Ray
Each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul. -- Martine Leavitt
Onshore wind turbines are visually a very considerable intrusion on any landscape. -- Tim Yeo
You conquered the landscape with the soles of shoes, not the tires. -- Georges Duhamel
Like many features of a landscape, knowledge looks different from different angles. -- David Bloor
Her sadness makes her impossibly beautiful, like snow blanketing a barren landscape. -- Marie Lu
Copyright law is a dinosaur, ill-suited for the landscape of today's media. -- Kaskade
I really do believe that art changes the landscape of the world. -- Marc Jacobs
The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man. -- Gilles Deleuze
The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape. -- Henry Home, Lord Kames
In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered. -- Melissa Brown
Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away. -- Andy Stanley
The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth. -- Mason Cooley
To the landscape architect a rock garden... appears... the work of a lunatic. -- Louise Wilder
I will not rest until I have transformed the landscape of American politics. -- Newt Gingrich
The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one. -- Margaret Atwood
Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams. -- Freeman Dyson

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