Quotes of: Landscapes Keyword

I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which we can roam the streets at midnight, in which every square is available for Virginia Woolf to make up her novels

Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

To inquire into the intricacies of a distant landscape, then, is to provoke thoughts about one’s own interior landscape, and the familiar landscapes of memory. The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.

Barry Lopez

Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own landscape.

Ridley Scott

Home is everything you can walk to.

Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

J. M. Roberts

The spaces between stars are where the work of the universe is done.

This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.

Cecil Beaton

Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes.

Werner Herzog

Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.

The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: "Elegance is not worth that price.

The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past

There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.

This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind

It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century.

Lawrence Summers

If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Earth as a species, what has fallen on our retina is landscape, not images of buildings and cars and street lights.

Bill Viola

Feminism has both undone the hierarchy in which the elements aligned with the masculine were given greater value than those of the feminine and undermined the metaphors that aligned these broad aspects of experience with gender. So, there goes women ...

Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

City as Landscape

The nature of life is mess, chaotic, exquisitely beautiful, excruciatingly painful, immensely joy-filled, and unpredictable.

Garden of Bliss: Cultivating the Inner Landscape for Self-Discovery

The soul-Self doesn't follow the crowd. It encourages you to speak up when you need to and live by your truth.

Garden of Bliss: Cultivating the Inner Landscape for Self-Discovery

I don't believe the inner work ever really ends, and sometimes I'd like to take a vacation.

Garden of Bliss: Cultivating the Inner Landscape for Self-Discovery

We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

Cubism is a part of the daily life in Spain, it is in Spanish architecture. The architecture of other countries aleays follows the line of the landscape . . . but Spanish architecture always cuts the lines of the landscape.

Picasso

If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you lose your sense of self.

Iain Sinclair