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Landscape Quotes

Terrain that keeps shifting underfoot.

These quotes treat landscape both literally, as gardening compared to painting, and figuratively, as an industry or field reshaped by new forces. Anyone tracking change over time may also enjoy the Back collection.

Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which...

Quotes by Hans-Ulrich Obrist

This is the story, this is your character, I have the sense of the landscape, I have the sense of the scene, I have all that stuff. But I'm also looking for something else to happen, an accident or something....

Quotes by Gore Verbinski

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

Quotes by Georges Simenon

Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.

Quotes by George Takei

I first got a sense of that idea of nodality - but I didn't use the word back then - with 'The Missing of the Somme': that sense of a particular place in a landscape or on a map having...

Quotes by Geoff Dyer

When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.

Quotes by Galen Rowell

I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.

Quotes by Galen Rowell

'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart.

Quotes by G. Willow Wilson

We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape.

Quotes by Fritz Todt

Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

Quotes by Freda Adler

I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not just snapping at what's in front of you.

Quotes by Frans Lanting

What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

Quotes by Fay Godwin

In a changing global landscape, Europe will be more and more an indispensible power.

Quotes by Federica Mogherini

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

Quotes by Ernest Dimnet

I wrote my senior essay on the Santa Fe Writer's Colony and my dissertation on sacred landscapes - the Grand Canyon, the Dakota Badlands. As a setting, I love the West. I just love that western landscape.

Quotes by Elise Broach

401k savings accounts have become so important in the landscape of retirement planning that their security and expansion became a top priority in formulating and implementing the Pension Protection Act of 2006 that was enacted during my tenure as the...

Quotes by Elaine Chao

I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.

Quotes by Edmund White

Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.

Quotes by Edoardo Ponti

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

Quotes by Edith Wharton

Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.

Quotes by Ed Weeks

Frequently Asked Questions

What is this Landscape quotes collection about?
It uses "landscape" both literally, as in gardening and painting, and figuratively, describing the shifting shape of an industry, a body of critical writing, or an electoral process. That mix of physical scenery and metaphorical terrain gives the page a wider range than a typical nature-quotes page. It suits readers who enjoy quotes that work on more than one level.
Why do people search for landscape quotes?
The word offers a vivid way to describe change or scope, whether someone is talking about a literal view or the broader state of an industry. Writers often reach for it when a plain description feels too flat. It's a versatile theme for captions about scenery, business shifts, or civic life.
What does the music business landscape quote mean?
It reflects on how much the music industry has changed and the need to adapt and take advantage of that shift, using "landscape" as shorthand for the overall shape of an industry rather than physical scenery.
Is there a quote connecting landscape to politics?
Yes - one notes that early voting is a vital part of the electoral landscape in Ohio, describing it as a structural feature of how elections function in that state rather than commenting on any particular election outcome.
Does this collection include an artistic take on landscape?
Yes - one line calls all gardening "landscape painting," treating garden design as a visual, compositional art form in its own right. For related creative framing, see our Book quotes.

One line describes literary criticism as illuminating dark, difficult terrain, a fitting companion to broader reflections under American or America.