46 Quotes About Scenery

  • Author Kurt Vonnegut
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    The sun had just gone down, and its afterglow was backlighting the city, which formed low cliffs around the bucolic void to the idle stockyards. The city was blacked out because bombers might come, so Billy didn’t get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city is capable of doing when the sun goes down, which is to wink its lights on one by one.There was a broad river to reflect those lights, which would have made their nighttime winkings very pretty indeed. It was the Elbe.

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  • Author Heather Heffner
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    Clinging to the rags I had left, I gazed out upon the full breadth of the Furnace and shook at what I saw.The world had been wiped clean of all trace of humanity. Sharp sandstone peaks protruded into the gray sky like a humped backbone, spilling into vast seas of sand on either side. Boulders and driftwood, the castaways of some bygone mountain, cast the only disruption upon the land. And I realized—no sun crossed the sky; there was only constant, lingering grayness.

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  • Author Thomm Quackenbush
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    The winding turns around capes, the unclouded sky, the flower mottled hills existed only as an aspect of waiting. Towns, civilization, meant the possibility of stopping for a meal, for the night even. Deep forest preserves through which a dirt road cut, gorgeous vistas that made one in awe of nature, only meant we were not yet near our destination.

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  • Author Misty Hayes
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    The colors melded in nature's tableau - green and blue and gold: the land, the sea, the sun. I could barely make out the whites of the waves as they broke over jagged cliffs below us.

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