203 Quotes About Landscape

We have built our houses between what is fluid and what is fixed.

When you have children or grandchildren it seems kind of waste if they cannot play on the lawn because there is fertilizer all over it.-Author, ORGANIC LANDSCAPING TECHNIQUES BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOKS

...the consensus among landscape ecologists is that 3 to 5 percent of the land remains as undisturbed habitat for plants and animals (Rosenzweig 2003). In other words, we have taken and modified for our own use between 95 and 97 percent of all land in the lower 48 states.

...we humans have disrupted natural habitats in so many ways and in so many places that the future of our nation's biodiversity is dim unless we start to share the places in which we live --our cities and, to an even greater extent, our suburbs -- with the plants and animals that evolved there

Ours [Britain's] is a deeply entrenched culture of exclusive land possession, of privilege and poverty, begun with the Norman land grabs and legitimised by a 500-year system that spread from these shores and would go on to change the physical and psychological landscape of the world.

Even when we are talking about England’s past, we are talking about its natural geography — its shape, location, weather, soil and raw materials. These set in motion the forces that shaped its history.

The surveyors described the landscape as bare and ragged, desolate and rough, punctuated by rocky hills and steep, narrow-ridged mountains of stratified limestone and porphyry, red basalt and igneous rock thrust upward alongside empty craters and extinct volcanos surrounded by broken lava.

Seest thou the sunbeam's yellow glow,That robes with liquid streams of light;Yon distant Mountain's craggy brow.And show the rocks so fair, - so bright -(Song. Hope.)

And it was the landscape that formed us, that made us who we were as we grew in it, that affected everything.