Top 100 Landscape Quotes To Marvel At Nature's Beauty

Landscapes are basically the visible features of a territory of land, its landforms and how they interact with natural or man-made features.

A landscape might include any of the natural elements of the earth such as ice covered mountains, hills, rivers, lakes, beautiful structures. Transitory elements of nature such as weather conditions and lightning amplify the entire environment.

Our earth has a variety of landscapes which includes icy landscapes, mountainous landscapes, vast arid desert landscapes, islands,  coastal landscapes, densely forested or wooded landscapes. A landscape's character is defined by a sense that place differentiates one region from other regions and the self-image of the people inhabiting it.

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Beautiful Landscape Quotes

Here are some beautiful landscape quotes for you to enjoy.

1. “The soul of a landscape, the spirits of the elements, the genius of every place will be revealed to a loving view of nature.”

- Karl Jaspers.

2. “I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I lie and relie on the earth.”

- Henry David Thoreau.

3. “Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.”

- Jim Hodges.

4. “The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me.”

- Zaha Hadid.

5. “The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.”

- Georges Simenon.

6. “Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”

- Frank Gehry.

7. “In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”

- Aristotle.

8. “I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.”

- David Byrne.

9. “Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

- Raveena Tandon.

10. “The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it…”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

11. “Five years have past; five summers, with the length

Of five long winters! and again I hear

These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs

With a soft inland murmur.”

- William Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey.

12. “My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.”

- Claude Monet.

13. “Horses make a landscape look beautiful.”

- Alice Walker.

14. “Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspirational.”

- Gavin Rossdale.

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

- Derek Walcott.

Landscape Architect Quotes

16. “The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.”

- Frank Lloyd Wright.

17. “I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.”

- Luis Barragan.

18. “The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.”

- Frank Lloyd Wright.

19. “I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface.”

- Lebbeus Woods.

20. “When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. But when I’ve finished, if the solution is not beautiful I know it’s wrong.”

- R. Buckminster Fuller.

21. “As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.”

- Norman Foster.

22. “One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.”

- Renzo Piano.

23. “For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

24. “To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.”

- Daniel Libeskind.

25. “Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.”

- Rem Koolhaas.

26. “In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose.”

- Augustus W. N. Pugin.

27. “I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.”

- Francisco Costa.

28. “It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate herself in human time and history.”

- Ruth Ozeki.

29. “Architecture is the art of how to waste space.”

- Philip Johnson.

30. “Architecture is a learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.”

- Le Corbusier.

Landscape Inspirational Quotes

These are some inspirational landscape quotes that will be your inspiration for your travels.

31. “The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.”

- Aldo Leopold.

32. “The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.”

- Amiri Baraka.

33. “You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.”

- Andy Goldsworthy.

34. “The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.”

- Antoine Predock.

35. “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.

36. “To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all.”

- Christopher Tunnard.

37. “For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.”

- Claude Monet.

38. “Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of blue and pink: it's enchanting, it's delicious.”

- Claude Monet.

39. “I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.”

- Daniel Day-Lewis.

40. “Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.”

- David Suzuki.

41. “There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.”

- Dieter Rams.

42. “This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand.”

- Emmet Gowin.

43. “The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.”

- Frank Lloyd Wright.

44. “When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.”

- Galen Rowell.

45. “To see a world in a grain of sand,

And a heaven in a wild flower,

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,

And eternity in an hour.”

- William Blake.

Landscape Design Quotes

Are you into designing landscapes? Here are some amazing quotes that can be both a great inspiration and motivation.

46. “You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.”

- Walt Disney.

47. “A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”

- Frank Lloyd Wright.

48. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

- Napoleon Hill.

49. “Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.”

- Henry Ford.

50. “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

- Antoine de Saint Exupery.

51. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”

- Maya Angelou.

52. “About his chequer'd sides I wind,

And leave his brooks and meads behind,

And groves and grottoes where I lay,

And vistoes shooting beams of day...”

-John Dyer, 'Grongar Hill'.

53.  “In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.”

- Unknown.*

54. “A design isn't finished until someone is using it.”

- Brenda Laurel.

55. “If it form the one landscape that we, the inconstant ones,

Are consistently homesick for, this is chiefly

Because it dissolves in water.”

- W. H. Auden, 'In Praise Of Limestone'.

Landscape Painting Quotes

There has been many amazing paintings of landscapes. Here are some of the magnificent quotes about them:

56. “A good landscape painting is not just a demonstration of competent application of paint. It must offer a feeling of homage to the subject.”

- Keith Shackleton.

57. “A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin. It exists as a record of an effect in nature whose splendour has moved a human heart, and according as it is well or ill done it moves the hearts of others.”

- Walter J. Phillips.

58. “Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.”

- William Hazlitt.

59. “Gardening is like landscape painting to me. The garden is the canvas. Plants, containers and other garden features are the colors. I paint on the garden of canvas hoping to create a master piece with my colors.”

- Ama H.Vanniarachchy.

60. “When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.”

- Walter Darby Bannard.

61. “One ends up with a landscape one has never seen before but it is presumably the landscape you were feeling as you started the painting.”

- Sidney Nolan.

62. “In the landscape, colors are more neutral than you may think. Pay close attention to this. Small areas of rich color can make the whole painting look colorful.”

- Matt Smith.

63. “All gardening is landscape painting.”

- William Kent.

64. “Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.”

- Amit Ray.

65. “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.

66. “I paint landscapes, figuratives. I painted all my life. In fact, I started as a commercial artist.”

- Pierce Brosnan.

67. “To be a landscape painter is to be a perverse individual.”

- Wolf Kahn.

68. “Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement.”

- John F. Carlson.

69. “The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter.”

- Walter J. Phillips.

70. “While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and his subject that inveigles the untutored beholder.”

- Walter J. Phillips.

Nature Landscape Quotes

Here are some quotes talking about nature and the landscape that it presents. We have collected green landscape quotes, natural beauty quotes and more:

71. “In every walk in with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”

- John Muir.

72. “I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.”

- Henry David Thoreau.

73. “The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.”

- Jack Kerouac.

74. “Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

75. “Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians.”

- Chinese Proverb.

76. “The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.”

- Albert Einstein.

77. “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”

- Rachel Carson.

78. “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy.”

- Sylvia Plath.

79. “Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.”

- Edward Abbey.

80. “Nature is the art of God.”

- Dante Alghieri.

Best Quotes About Nature's Beauty

Here are some of the best quotes on beautiful nature and its beauty. These include nature beauty quotes, extracts from short poems about nature, aphorisms, big sky landscape quotes, summer landscape quotes and more for you to relax in summer time.

81. “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”

- William Shakespeare.

82. “Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

- Walt Whitman.

83. “Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”

- Rachel Carson.

84. “We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.”

- William Hazlitt.

86. “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”

- Albert Einstein.

87. “In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”

- Albert Camus.

88. “If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”

- Vincent Van Gogh.

89. “Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”

- Rabindranath Tagore.

90. “Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.”

- Blaise Pascal.

91. “The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.”

- Natalie Angier.

92. “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”

- John Muir.

93. “Nature soothes us. Nature heals us, and something more, the woods are a place of power.”

- Frederick Lenz.

94. “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.”

- Alice Walker.

95. “Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.”

- L. Wolfe Gilbert.

Landscape Quotes From 'The Lord Of The Rings'

Here are some famous landscape quotes from 'Lord Of The Rings'. These include quotes about nature, outdoor quotes, forest quotes, tree quotes, wilderness quotes and explore quotes for you to enrich your Middle Earth landscape knowledge.

96. “He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire.”

- J.R.R Tolkien.

97. “Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.

- J.R.R. Tolkien.

98. “Well, I am going back into the open air, to see what the wind and sky are doing!”

- J.R.R. Tolkien.

99. “Well, I’ve made up my mind, anyway. I want to see mountains again, Gandalf – mountains; and then find somewhere where I can rest.”

- J.R.R. Tolkien.

100. “...and all the stars flowered in the sky.”

- J.R.R. Tolkien.

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