#lands

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#dance #garlands #golden #i #ropes

Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#appeared #arrangement #arts #creative #culmination

In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#godliness #landscape #next #precision

Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

#everything #inspiration #inspirations #just #just living

Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#long #need #our #protect #public

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. ↗

— Gerald Brenan

#climate #happy #happy marriage #husband #landscape

My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands. ↗

— Jason Statham

#canary #father #islands #now #run

Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I'm visiting. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#exercise #fresh #fresh air #get #golf

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

#consciousness #landscape #like #readers #state

At the time of Lewis and Clark, setting the prairies on fire was a well-known signal that meant, ‘Come down to the water.’ It was an extravagant gesture, but we can’t do less. If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. After the extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with ever fresh vigor. The whole show has been on fire from the word go. I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look, I see fire: that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#landscape #life #nature #wisdom #beauty