Landscape Quotes

Landscape architecture is basically geodesign; it's designing geography. And yet geodesign is not only done by landscape architects, it's done by some of the world's largest corporations.

~ Jack Dangermond

I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.

~ Antoine Predock

In my time in the U.S. Senate, I tried to craft an energy policy... I will be part of President Obama's efforts to achieve energy independence and enhance the landscape. I am also part of his reform agenda.

~ Ken Salazar

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

~ Derek Walcott

Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.

~ Andy Stanley

The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place. Certainly finding a place that you like or discovering something unusual is a very sustaining thing in travel.

~ Paul Theroux

I have high hopes that GIS will become increasingly relevant for landscape architects as we make the tools easier to use for the design process of just inventory and mapping.

~ Jack Dangermond

All gardening is landscape painting.

~ William Kent

Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.

~ Gary Miller

London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.

~ Peter Ackroyd

The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.

~ Brock Yates

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

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

~ Charles Lindbergh

The ouster of Jill Abramson as executive editor of 'The New York Times' sent shock waves through the media landscape. Reports that she was fired thanks in part to a soured relationship based on the 'Times' alleged sexist pay discrepancy only made those shock waves stronger.

~ Ben Shapiro

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.

~ Max Muller

With the mining sites, I found a subject matter that carried forth my fascination with the undoing of the landscape, in terms of both its formal beauty and its environmental politics.

~ David Maisel