27 quotes found
“Poets make the best topographers.”
“I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress.”
“There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.”
“Sometimes in the summer evenings they walked up the hill to watch the afterglow clinging to the tops of the western mountains and to feel the breeze drawn into the valley by the rising day-heated a...”
“Landscapes we must owe something to the eye of the beholder.”
“One learns a landscape finally not by knowing the name or identity of everything in it, but by perceiving the relationships in it--like that between the sparrow and the twig. The difference between...”
“Everything had become song. The curve of the road beneath the clouds here, and there the strokes of dark earth, the green and the gray, the torn pink of clay and gravel under fingertips. The conson...”
