Quotes about Lands

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Eduardo Galeano notes that America was conquered, but not discovered, that the men who arrived with a religion to impose — Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a v — Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Landscapes we must owe something to the eye of the beholder. — Mary Lascelles, Jane Austen And Her Art
Who will bear witness to these small islands and oases of wildness as land is divided and sold to become strip malls, ho — Joni L. James, Dancing With Herons: Bearing Witness to Local Natural History
A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient — Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
what it is...is a place where I can return to myself. It's enough of a scramble to get to...that the energy expended is — Jay Salter
This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mistakes... What matter — Aldo Leopold, For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings
I thought that there could be no revolt against nature. I accepted the landscape without dreaming that, behind, there st — Roger Vitrac
Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to tr — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any bounda — Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
The old woman took her hand, kissed it, and went back home in tears. The sky, pale in the east, still burned over Monte, — Grazia Deledda, Reeds in the Wind
When we destroy the fertile lands, we destroy our own good life! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Winters are a desolate time where all senses are wiped away, and here in Canada, this is especially true. All smells are — Rebecca McNutt, Listen is Silent, or The Usurer
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is in the bog in our brains and bowe — Henry David Thoreau, The Journal, 1837-1861
I loved these salt rivers more than I loved the sea; I loved the movement of tides more than I loved the fury of surf. S — Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
Don’t forget that the land is always out there, making its way, doing everything it can so you can breathe fresh air; so — Charlotte Eriksson
The place has entered me...it has coloured my life like a stain. — Adam Nicolson
...landscape is a work of the mind. Its scenery is built up as much from strata of memory as from layers of rock. — simon schma
... and isn't the world a treasure in itself? A spectacle glittering every single day, without a concern if anyone's wat — Charlotte Eriksson
One learns a landscape finally not by knowing the name or identity of everything in it, but by perceiving the relationsh — Barry López, Crossing Open Ground