Quotes, aphorisms and phrases on the landscape, that part of the territory taken into consideration from the perspective and descriptive point of view as a whole, sometimes under the guidance of an affective sense or an artistic inspiration that occurred at the particular moment in which you look.
Quotes about the landscape
- I took a moment to admire the glorious landscape that surrounded me, to take a look at where I had come from. But I can only rest for a moment, because with freedom comes the responsibilities and I don't want to linger, my long journey is not over. (Nelson Mandela)
- Hyde Park was simply fabulous. Everything there is fabulous, except for the trash on Monday morning. Even the ducks are fabulous. Anyone who goes to Hyde Park one summer evening without being moved by its beauty probably goes there on board an ambulance and has a sheet covering his face. (Douglas Adams)
- It is in us that landscapes have landscape. So if I imagine them I create them; if I create them they exist; if they exist I see them. Life is what we make of it. Travels are travelers. What we see is not what we see, but what we are. (Fernando Pessoa)
- Is there some sandy expanse in the deserts of Arabia, some desolate glimpse of the ruins of Palestine, which can repel the gaze and depress the spirit more than the spectacle of a city in the English province in development? (Wilkie William Collins)
- Springs and landscapes have a serious flaw: they are free. Love for nature does not provide work for any factory. (Aldous Huxley)
- The theater, or the landscape, is worthy of the scenes that are represented in it. An undulating land, with a desolate and miserable appearance, covered everywhere by peaty soil and dried-up grass of a uniform brown color. Here and there a point and a rock of gray quartz rock break the monotony of the surface. (Charles Robert Darwin)
- If you do not climb the mountain you will never be able to enjoy the landscape. (Pablo Neruda)
- Sometimes I doubt that motorists do not know what grass is, or what flowers are, because they have never seen them, they have never passed close to us slowly. (Ray Bradbury)
- The city can open to the passer-by from all sides like a landscape without thresholds. (Walter Benjamin)
- Look out the window. Does it not remind you of when you were in the boat? And when you were lying that night, your gaze turned to the sky, and the water you remembered was not so different from the landscape ... You asked yourself: "How come the landscape is moving but the boat is stopped?" And again ... "Where are you from?" (Crispin Glover)
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- How beautiful this small landscape is. These two rocks, these few trees and then the water and then the river, how beautiful it is. Very little noise, a little wind and a lot of water. It is a small Brittany landscape, it can be in the palm of your hand when you look at it from a distance. (Jacques Prévert)
- Breathtaking landscapes are very uncomfortable to think of. You are forced to take care of them, you dare not sit on it without a minimum of respect. (Fred Vargas)
- The land belongs to its owners, but the landscape belongs to those who know how to appreciate it. (Upton Beall Sinclair)
- Those houses looked at the view with me, and saw how the streets winded through the plains and how green colored everything, while the cypresses here and there watched the valley like daredevil soldiers. (Michael Floris)
- A landscape is a state of mind. (Henri Frédéric Amiel)
- Here there is always sunlight, there are palm trees so announced, there is the coolness of the sunset ... and there are a lot of people with colds. The boys all go around in their hats, as if they were cobs. The girls as well. (Stephen Vincent Benét)
- In our days, almost every so-called improvement that man can manage, such as the construction of houses and the felling of age-old forests and trees, irreversibly perverts the landscape and makes it increasingly tame and banal. (Henry David Thoreau)
- American highways are projected everywhere without mediation into the landscape, and the wider and smoother, and the more violent and unrelated their shining ribbon stands out on the too wild environment. They have no expression. (Theodor Adorno)
Aphorisms on the landscape
- The landscape has no language and the light has no grammar, yet millions of books try to tell them. (Robert Macfarlane)
- The sadness without reason that the landscape instills in the hearts of men. (Haruki Murakami)
- Eternal wayfarers of ourselves, there is no other landscape than what we are. (Fernando Pessoa)
- Behind it the hills open, the sun flames on fields so vast as to impart an unlimited character to the landscape, the paths are white, the low hedges have intertwined branches, the atmosphere is colorless. (Thomas Hardy)
- We take a handful of sand from the infinite panorama of perceptions and call it the world. (Robert Maynard Pirsig)
- Once we got to the top we turned around and a beautiful view presented itself. The splendidly clear atmosphere; the intense blue sky; the deep valleys; wildly jagged profiles; the piles of debris piled up over the centuries; the brightly colored rocks, in contrast with the quiet snowy mountains; all this together created a scenario that no one could have imagined. (Charles Darwin)
- A library is one of the most beautiful landscapes in the world. (Jacques Sternberg)
Sometimes a tree humanizes a landscape better than a man would. (Gilbert Cesbron)
- What is said in a romantic landscape is a peaceful sense of the sublime in the form of the past or, which is the same, of solitude, absence, detachment. (Johann Wolfgang Goethe)
- I prefer winter and autumn, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - its solitude, the full feeling of winter. (Andrew Wyeth)
- Every gardening is painting of a landscape. (William Kent)
- From my window I looked at a landscape that was already inside me and I felt an emotion that was already in the landscape. (Eise Osman)
- How difficult it is to understand when making a painting what is the exact moment when the imitation of nature must stop. A painting is not a verbal process. When it comes to a landscape, I love those paintings that make me want to go inside to go for a walk. (Pierre Auguste Renoir)
- Houses will be able to fly. The time will come when entire communities will be able to migrate south in the winter, or move to new territories whenever they feel the need to change the landscape. (Arthur Charles Clarke)
- Our consciousness needs a new, unitary totality that surpasses the elements, without being tied to their particular meanings and mechanically composed of them - this alone is the landscape. (George Simmel)
- Every landscape has its own story: the one we read, the ones we dream of, and the ones we create. (George Michael Sinclair Kennedy)
- Our consciousness needs a new, unitary totality that surpasses the elements, without being tied to their particular meanings and mechanically composed of them - this alone is the landscape. (George Simmel)
- There has often been talk of the influence of the landscape on feelings, but I don't think there has ever been talk of this influence on a moral attitude. (Jean Genet)
Phrases on the landscape
- The creation of the landscape required a laceration with respect to the unitary feeling of universal nature. (George Simmel)
- Nature imitates what the work of art proposes. Have you noticed how, for some time now, nature has started to resemble Corot's landscapes? (Oscar Wilde)
- Your soul is an exquisite landscape. (Paul Verlaine)
- May your path be tortuous, windy, lonely, dangerous and bring you to the most spectacular panorama. (Edward Abbey)
- The walk, the shows, and the Churches are the main occasions for societies that Italians have, and it can be said that their whole society consists of them. (Giacomo Leopardi)
- The landscape looks different seen from every single blade of grass. (Marty Rubin)
- It was a land of numbing pleasures, of swaying dreams before half-closed eyes and of cheerful castles in the clouds that go by forever reddening a summer sky. (Washington Irving)
- I would give all the landscapes in the world for that of my childhood. (E.M. Cioran)
- Why does a virtuous man delight in landscapes? Because the noise of the dusty world and the enclosure of human dwellings are what nature habitually abhors; while, on the contrary, haze, opacity, and the obsessive spirits of the mountains are what human nature seeks, and which, however, it rarely manages to find. (Chu Hsi)
- Life is like a landscape. You live in the middle, but you can only describe it from a distant point of view. (Charles Lindbergh)
- The train left with two whistles and a jolt. As we passed, some ostriches with floating feathers sprang off the rails. The mountains were gray and barely glimpsed in the sultry haze. Sometimes a truck littered the horizon with a cloud of dust. (Bruce Chatwin)
- Landscape photography is the supreme proof of the photographer and often his supreme disappointment. (Ansel Adams)
- I went there a few times: beyond the forests, in the mountains at night. I saw the world fall away and the white light of eternity fill the air. (Evangeline Lilly)
- Have you ever thought about how a landscape shapes a language? It is impossible to imagine these hills without connecting them to the soft Irish syllables, just as certain forms of German can only be spoken on the steep cliffs of Europe; or the Dutch in the muddy, guttural, Flemish plains. (Alexander McCall Smith)
- Do you think that as long as the earth is round, you will be able to find natural landscapes everywhere? Can a round face have more than one nose? (Salvador Dalì)
- The whole world is very "alive" for me - all the little things that grow, even the rocks. I can't watch a little grass and earth grow, for example, without perceiving the essential life, the things that move with them. The same goes for a mountain, or a stretch of sea, or a magnificent piece of old wood. (Ansel Adams)
- We believe we are a country, but the truth is that we are little more than a landscape. (Nicanor Parra)
- If I can write books it is because in a landscape I see different things from what another sees us, I hear different things and by choosing different words I can build stories that have their originality. (Haruki Murakami)
- In our days, almost every so-called improvement that man can manage, such as the construction of houses and the felling of age-old forests and trees, irreversibly perverts the landscape and makes it increasingly tame and banal. (Henry David Thoreau)
