Quotes about Landscape

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The legacy left by man shall be barren earth — empty buildings
At the time of Lewis and Clark, setting the prairies on fire was a well-known signal that meant, ‘Come down to the water — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it se — Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
I am no scientist. I explore the neighbourhood. An infant who has just learned to hold his head up has a frank and forth — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that’s its beauty. — Amit Ray, World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird
I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds a — John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Thomas Merton wrote, “there is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Think of a globe, a revolving globe on a stand. Think of a contour globe, whose mountain ranges cast shadows, whose cont — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
What I aim to do is not so much learn the names of the shreds of creation that flourish in this valley, but to keep myse — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
When her doctor took her bandages off and led her into the garden, the girl who was no longer blind saw “the tree with t — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a world to compass these things, a world that is a long, — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
The secret of seeing is, then the pearl of great price. If I thought he could teach me to find it and keep it forever I — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Sometimes in the summer evenings they walked up the hill to watch the afterglow clinging to the tops of the western moun — John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a d — Laurie Lee, Cider With Rosie
The sky's gray and there's mizzle. It's so soft on my skin--it's nothing like rain. It's even softer than the lightest d — Jenn Fagan
She could see all of Ferenwood from here: the rolling hills, the endless explosion of color cascading down and across th — Tahereh Mafi, Furthermore
Unkar Delta at Mile 73The layers of brick red sandstone, siltstone, and mudstone of the Dox formation deposited a billio — Ann Zwinger, Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon
This landscape is animate: it moves, transposes, builds, proceeds, shifts, always going on, never coming back, and one c — Ann Zwinger, Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon
Pico Iyer: “And at some point, I thought, well, I’ve been really lucky to see many, many places. Now, the great adventur — Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
I think of two landscapes- one outside the self, the other within. The external landscape is the one we see-not only the — Barry López, Crossing Open Ground