203 Quotes About Landscape

La nieve era fina y triste. Tan pronto como tocaba el suelo se fundía, convirtiendo la tierra en barro. Si algún copo se posaba en la piel se convertía en una gélida lágrima. Caía, frágil e imparable, sobre los desprotegidos campos arados que esperaban la primavera con la misma impaciencia que sus dueños.

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The campus spreads around him like the verdant pleasure garden of an ancient king. He is enraptured by the enormous trees that lift branches like cathedral roofs overhead, shoot roots like polished ballroom floors underfoot. In the hot afternoons he leaves the crowded rooms to study under the protection of these spreading giants.

An imagined landscape, then, is a landscape not of being but of becoming: a composition not of objects and surfaces but of movements and stillness, not there to be surveyed but cast in the current of time.

Crossing the Fens by boat there comes the realisation that water not earth or sky is the natural element in this landscape.

But that miracle would eventually arrive, as it always had, and the landscape would turn from brown to green within hours under the kiss of the rain. And there were other colours that would follow the green; yellows, blues, reds would appear in patches across the veld as if great cakes of dye had been crumbled and scattered by an unseen hand.

In a sacred landscape, only time is profane.

One learns a landscape finally not by knowing the name or identity of everything in it, but by perceiving the relationships in it--like that between the sparrow and the twig. The difference between the relationships and the elements is the same as that between written history and a catalog of events.

Looking from afar - from present to past, from exile to homeland, from island back to mainland, mountain-top at lowland - results notin vision's diffusion but in its sharpening; not in memory's dispersal but in it's plenishment.