203 Quotes About Landscape

The place has entered me...it has coloured my life like a stain.

...landscape is a work of the mind. Its scenery is built up as much from strata of memory as from layers of rock.

Na pelerinaxe artística ou de sinxela emoción de terras, as paisaxes fan collidas da man, cinguidas polo andar (loce a figura dun ouso, dunha portada en nós e xa outros asoman ao lonxe como os navíos na comba do mar; as paisaxes saen unhas creadas polas outras, ou como os artellos dun anteollo que se vai abrindo) zodíacos que cruzan o peito da terra nai.

The hedges - yes, the hedges, the very synonym of Merry England - are yet there, and long may they remain. Without hedges England would not be England. Hedges, thick and high, and full of flowers, birds, and living creatures, of shade and flecks of sunshine dancing up and down the bark of the trees - I love their very thorns. You do not know how much there is in the hedges. (1884)

— Дивився на своє місто. З вікон розбитого старого терміналу [...] Здавалося, можна вийти й піти додому, а ні — стріляють.Слухаю, намагаючись уявити, як це — бачити знайомі вулиці, знати, що десь там вікно твоєї кімнати, твої книжки, зів’ялі без нагляду бегонії у вазонках, коти у сусідів або у під’їзді, безпритульні, прислухаються до кроків, чи ти, бува, не повертаєшся...

Il deserto batteva qualsiasi cosa avesse mai visto.Non era per un fatto estetico, perché non poteva certo dire che fosse stupendo o meraviglioso. Era una questione di stazza. il deserto era lì. Stava. Ovunque guardasse. Monotono, imponente, come il mare.Però il contatto era più stretto, sentiva il calore, sentiva la sabbia. Era strano, gli piaceva.

The land afterward was cleared by oxen, the fallen trees stripped of their bark and cut for lumber that would be used in the construction of the villa, in which the women would live as servants, on whose property their daughters terraced the mountain for orange and lemon groves, where they could see to the east from the peak of Mount Terminus their sons raising swine in the valley below.

To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.