Quotes by Landscape The landscape has been so totally changed, the ways of thinking have been so deeply affected, that it is very hard to get hold of what it was like before… It is very hard to realize how total a change in outlook Isaac Newton has produced. Hermann Bondi landscape change thinking By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber. Henry David Thoreau landscape selfishness mean There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face. Irvin Kershner landscape faces interesting If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone. Henry David Thoreau landscape names men Landscape is history made visible. J. B. Jackson visible landscape made The greater number of landscapes I explored, the more it seemed that they had traits in common and that the essence of each was not its uniqueness but its similarity to others. J. B. Jackson landscape essence numbers I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds. J. G. Ballard landscape mind feels A novel is like a window, open to an infinite landscape. Isabel Allende landscape infinite window On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like strips of matte and glossy ribbon. J. K. Rowling landscape green rivers What's interesting to me, is a moving someone through time; in a way, history is part of my landscape. And it fascinates me that history can be so easily reflected in what happens today. Jacqueline Winspear landscape interesting moving ...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing. Jack Kerouac landscape reading bumps There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please. I identify with that system, or lack of system, much more than I do the landscape of contemporary publishing. James Frey categories landscape art We have to make some things for ourselves because the conveyer belt from China is doomed (this process is known as import replacement). We have to do transportation differently, because mass motoring and even commercial aviation will soon be over. We have to inhabit the landscape differently because both suburbia and the metroplex mega-city will be obsolete, so we will have to return to a more traditional disposition of things in smaller urbanisms associated with productive agricultural hinterlands. James Howard Kunstler landscape return cities One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards. Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain landscapes, persons, beasts, books, rooms, meteorological conditions, fruits. In fact, I insist on it. A letter is like a poem, it leaps into life and shows very clearly the marks, perhaps I should say thumbprints, of an unwilling or unready composer. James Salter landscape letters book I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers. Janet Echelman landscape pay two Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape. Janet Fitch landscape dimensions memories You can put a gardener behind the wheel, but you can't keep her eyes off the landscape. Janet Macunovich landscape garden eye I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods. Janisse Ray landscape who-i-am stories ...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment. Jasper Fforde landscape form lord Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus of affluence. Streets with overcrowded and glittering store windowsthe displays of delicacies, and all the scenes of alimentary and vestimentary festivity, stimulate a magical salivation. Accumulation is more than the sum of its products: the conspicuousness of surplus, the final and magical negation of scarcitymimic a new-found nature of prodigious fecundity. Jean Baudrillard delicacy landscape affluence «23456789101112»
