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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.

The 'Station to Station' film is a fast-moving journey through the modern creative landscape. It's a kaleidoscope of voices and impressions rather than a standard linear film.

Quotes by Doug Aitken

The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.

Quotes by Donna Tartt

Quality of life is not only about what you find in the shops; it's about the landscape.

Quotes by Donald Tusk

If you were to go to the National Museum in Addis Ababa, you would walk into a huge room filled with literally tens of tons of fossils, and most of them would be elephants and rhinos and hippopotamus and monkeys...

Quotes by Donald Johanson

Peoria is such a seemingly quintessential American city, and I had always wanted to draw on that in either my fiction or in nonfiction. The Midwest is also a landscape that I have always been infatuated with, perhaps because it's...

Quotes by Dinaw Mengestu

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.

Quotes by Diane Wakoski

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

Quotes by Derek Walcott

My delight in things is definitely Caribbean. It has to do with landscape and food. The fact that my language may have a metrical direction is because that's the shape of the language. I didn't make that shape.

Quotes by Derek Walcott

I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress.

Quotes by Deborah Moggach

My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near Watford - so I wanted to do something different. I wanted to be a bluegrass singer, an architect,...

Quotes by Deborah Moggach

Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.

Quotes by Daniel Dennett

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

Quotes by Clive Anderson

The British have a unique relationship with horses. They are etched into our landscape in chalk, they have been written about, painted, sung about, celebrated and gambled upon for centuries.

Quotes by Clare Balding

That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it. His short stories have got rhythm, something musical about them.

Quotes by Ciaran Hinds

The Europeans governments have massively changed the landscape in Europe. There is no doubt about it. They have put together the European Financial Stability Fund. They have discussed and approved the European Stability Mechanism.

Quotes by Christine Lagarde

The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism.

Quotes by Chris Hughes

At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in the Cotswolds exploring Shakespeare's countryside. It's my kind of English landscape, with its tiny villages and one-room thatched...

Quotes by Cherie Lunghi

The landscape of the Net has changed; that cyberfrontier of the past has become a teeming city of people, transactions, and businesses.

Quotes by Charles Platt

While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the...

Quotes by Charles Frazier

EMI is a proven leader in the emerging digital music landscape and one of the world's largest and most respected music companies.

Quotes by Chad Hurley

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.