#lands

Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#economic #globalization #increasing #interdependence #islands

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#children #dictates #even #landscape #measure

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. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#context #cultural #distinctly #ethnic #gender

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

— Derek Walcott

#caribbean #comes #dissolves #faced #history

It is up to us as lawmakers to provide the resources and streamlined processes that will enable our federal forest managers to become the best possible steward of our lands. ↗

— Greg Walden

#best #enable #federal #forest #lands

In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth. ↗

— J. Donald Walters

#appear #distances #each #earth #even

By and large we have got to find the good leaders to work with to make sure that we build the strength in these communities. Simply issuing edicts from Canberra isn't going to solve issues on the APY lands. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#canberra #communities #find #going #good

I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might be outside a pub, or on a beach or in a studio. They might have clothes on or they might not. ↗

— Peter Wright

#beach #clothes #happen #i #landscapes

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

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. ↗

— Andre Gide

#discover #does #lands #long #long time