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In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.
When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.
We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.
If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
I enjoy doing very high mileages, partly out of masochism and also because I like to feel the shape of the landscape.
I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.
There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.
I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.
Landscape consists in the multiple, overlapping intricacies and forms that exist in a given space at a moment in time.
I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods.
Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.
Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.
It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.
The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
We are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.
I went to the Gobi Desert, even though I had no scenes there. This is the greatness of China, the landscape, even for us.
I think 'Hand to God' is going to change the landscape of Broadway. I think Broadway, truthfully, will never be the same.
And it was only a week later that I realized a close up of Steve McQueen was worth the greatest landscape you could find.
Virtual currencies, used to buy digital goods inside online games, have become an integral part of the Internet landscape.
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements.
When you are with a landscape or a human being where there is no need to speak, but simply to listen, to perceive, to feel.
Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .
The landscape for business isn’t changing because of social media, it’s changing because consumer expectations are evolving.
You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.
Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth.
We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.
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.
I was a housepainter and a landscape nursery man, and all these various odd jobs I had, and started doing community theater.
While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.
I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.
In a landscape where a 2.8 [demo rating] keeps you on the air, you can maintain that just by treating your fans with respect.
...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.
Welcome to Israel, where the beaches are great, the fruit is succulent, the landscape is mesmerizing, and all of it is stolen.
The vast number of photographers, feeding on anything visible, overgraze the landscape the way cattle overgraze their pasture.
London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.
It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And, as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.
...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.
When you're doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.
The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism.
Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.
Very early in life, I fell in love with the landscape of the human face, where all the emotional states of life are to be found.
Many of the poets I most admire have a way of embodying their peculiar obsessions via landscape that can sometimes seem magical.
I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes or landscapes.
My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people.
EMI is a proven leader in the emerging digital music landscape and one of the world's largest and most respected music companies.
Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.
Our own GOP machine, the establishment, they who would assemble the political landscape, they're attacking their own front-runner.
I used to live on a barge - it is incredibly good to write near water. There is an ever-changing landscape, so you never get bored.