271 Landscape Quotes for You to Enjoy

I always thought of Djibouti as a place where human history hasn't really begun yet - or perhaps it's already over. There's something in the landscape that's stronger than human civilisation. There's no agriculture, for example, and there are live volcanoes. Claire Denis

One of the problems with any kind of talking about the media landscape is that we've just been through an unusually stable period in which, for fifty years, English language media was centered in three cities - London, New York, and Los Angeles - around a very stable group of people working in a relatively stable set of media. Clay Shirky

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Driving a steamroller over an old trumpet or a teaspoon is no more destructive than taking a chisel to a lump of marble already torn from the landscape. But people don't see it that way because marble is considered noble. Cornelia Parker

People Old Considered Way Destructive Torn See More Driving Noble Taking Over Because Trumpet Than Chisel Landscape Marble Lump

We can look out on an alien landscape that no one has seen before and find it beautiful. David Grinspoon

Beautiful Alien Seen Before Out Find No-One Look Landscape

I have traveled the entire state and spent a lot of time out of doors. So I have known the landscape of the Columbia Basin for quite a while, and I have had this strong feeling about it for many years. David Guterson

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out. David Hockney

You Worn Out Course Still Been Landscape Paint

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

Environmental Politics Matter Beauty Carried Mining Both Terms Subject Subject Matter Undoing Sites Formal Forth Landscape Fascination Found

I love the nooks and crannies of the American landscape; the back roads and back alleys, the places that are still untouched by the corporate gloss, the veneer of sameness that seems to be spreading across the country. David Means

Love Country Back Corporate Seems Alley Roads Veneer Untouched Gloss Spreading Still American Sameness Places Across Landscape

The short story is kind of a precision tool. It allows me a certain type of freedom to go in and out of the American landscape, without having to commit myself to a full-length novel. I find a lot of novels out there very boring. David Means

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

Teacher Architect Waitress Trained Wanted Worked Landscape Publishing

My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near Watford - so I wanted to do something different. I wanted to be a bluegrass singer, an architect, a landscape gardener, or to do something with animals. Deborah Moggach

There is no one more deserving of a place in Poets' Corner. Ted Hughes introduced a new kind of landscape into English poetry. The most compelling aspect of his work was his intimacy with nature. Derek Walcott

Orkney has the kind of landscape that sort of lends itself to a relationship with the people. I think that relationship is intensified because of its remoteness and the long periods of time when there was no interaction with other cultures. Diana Gabaldon

Time Relationship People Long Think Other Kind Long Periods Periods Sort Because Cultures Itself Intensified Interaction Lends Landscape

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins. Diane Wakoski

Sometimes Gender Out Poetry Myths Written Geographic Context Reference Cultural American Often Race Ethnic Landscape Origins

Peoria is such a seemingly quintessential American city, and I had always wanted to draw on that in either my fiction or in nonfiction. The Midwest is also a landscape that I have always been infatuated with, perhaps because it's the first one I can truly remember. Dinaw Mengestu

As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something original that alters or deepens my understanding of both literature and life. Dinaw Mengestu

Life Me Emotions World Language Understanding Characters Ability Vital Something Both Writer Writers Most Render Fictional Literature Landscape Original

I grew up in the suburbs of Connecticut - during the school time of year - but I preferred it in New Hampshire. I preferred the culture, the landscape, the relative solitude. I've always loved it. Donald Hall

Time Culture Solitude School Year Relative New Always New Hampshire Hampshire Up Grew Loved Suburbs Preferred Landscape Connecticut

Quality of life is not only about what you find in the shops; it's about the landscape. Donald Tusk

Life You Quality Find About Only Quality Of Life Shops Landscape

The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story. Donna Tartt

Book Language Long First Approach Characters Also Friend Diction Different Different Approach Story Different Characters Little Landscape Use Novel

We're moving into an era when things are dematerialised and much more holographic. Floating above the physical world and the geographic map, there's another landscape that's constantly changing - something like a cloud - of communication, information, exchange and commerce. Doug Aitken

Communication World Cloud Changing Constantly Physical Above Something More Physical World Exchange Like Another Geographic Era Commerce Information Moving Much Landscape Map Floating Things

I'm really pleased to share the 'Station to Station' film. It has a very unorthodox structure; it's made up of separate one-minute films. So you watch this piece that is like time moving. Everything is democratised, whether it's a minute of Patti Smith or a single landscape with a drone, it's this amazing modern kaleidoscope. Doug Aitken

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'Station to Station' is a series of happenings that go across the landscape. What is a happening? A happening is a moment in time. A moment in time that is not choreographed, where you don't know precisely what's going on. Where there are aspects of different layers of culture. Doug Aitken

Time You Culture Station Layers Know Go Precisely Going Where Different Happening Happenings Across Landscape Aspects Moment Series

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