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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
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. You're focused on the story you intend to tell and then you have to have a peripheral net out to catch these accidents.
- Barbed Wire
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 some kind of tremendous power to draw us to itself... that made me conscious, and since then, really, it has been an abiding concern of mine.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
'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.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape.
- Fade
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a changing global landscape, Europe will be more and more an indispensible power.
- Consciousness
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- Nov 07, 2020
A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Act
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 U.S. Secretary of Labor.
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