#lands

Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and then the shadow sweeps it away. You know you’re alive. You take huge steps, trying to feel the planet’s roundness arc between your feet. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#landscape #nature #walking #nature

Landscapes we must owe something to the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Mary Lascelles

#nature #art

…I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which was described as a rare but by no means unknown affliction of spirit. There are people…who find islands somehow irresistible. The mere knowledge that they are on an island, a little world surrounded by the sea, fills them with an indescribable intoxication. These born “islomanes”…are direct descendents of the Atlanteans ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#science

Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#glands #success #success is #sweat #upon

I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style. ↗

— Ken Burns

#becomes #careful #complexity #composition #drama

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do. ↗

— Glenn Close

#acting #adventure #basically #examining #heart

I discovered Musha Cay and the islands around it in the Exumas. ↗

— David Copperfield

#discovered #i #islands

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical. ↗

— Mos Def

#economy #effective #ends #entire #i

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show. ↗

— Andrew Wyeth

#bone #fall #feel #i #landscape

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills? ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#itself #jails #justice #killing #lands