"All forms of landscape are autobiographical."
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"It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest."
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"On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like strips of matte and glossy ribbon."
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"Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive."
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"The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away."
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"Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape."
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"The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson"
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"What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being."
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"Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape."
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"I feel that this is a vocabulary that I grew up with. This biblical landscape is very familiar to me, and it's natural that I use those landmarks as references. Once they were universal references and everybody understood and knew them and located them. That's no longer the case today, but it is still my landscape."
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"We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes."
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"I'm very American in the sense of being an explorer. America is filled with people who are interested in exploring landscapes, either external or internal. A westward nation of explorers."
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"I think that what these psychedelics do, is they actually do connect you to the whole circle. You stand outside of the moment from which you embarked on your psychedelic experience, and you see eternity like a vast landscape deployed in front of you. So what I think psychedelics are is they're about time, and they somehow make all time co-present."
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"We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield."
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"If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone."
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"I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head over the next ridge."
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"There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia."
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"The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others."
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"Dance is the landscape of man's soul."
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"I'm fascinated by how you'll change your position so many times over a lifetime, but really what you're doing is occupying a series of positions on a landscape."
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