“Degradation is a continuum, ... In virtually every ecosystem we visited, humans have colonized the landscape. Very few places are wild. The places to find wildlife are in protected areas. This is a good indicator of how deeply human species has penetrated the continent.”

“We suggest to you that what the applicant is proposing would increase adjoining property values. You have better, more attractive units landscaped as you can require in a conditional use permit. This will attract better tenants than are currently there.”

I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.

“They commented that Bracken County is not landscaped for giant industries like you see in Georgetown and that we should encourage more cottage industries, companies with 15-20 employees, that may support a larger company elsewhere. Nice clean little ones.”

This landscape is animate: it moves, transposes, builds, proceeds, shifts, always going on, never coming back, and one can only retain it in vignettes, impressions caught in a flash, flipped through in succession, leaving a richness of images imprinted on a sunburned retina.

“I am a collector, which is something of a curse in the gardening world. Rather than acquire plants to realize a design, I purchase them on their merits and then struggle to integrate them into an ever changing landscape. It's tough on the design, but otherwise satisfying.”

“A flower unblown; a book unread; A tree with fruit unharvested; A path untrod - A landscape whose wide border lies In silent shade 'neath silent skies; A wondrous fountain yet unsealed; - This is the Year that for you waits Beyond to-morrow's mystic”

“The last elections revealed sharp political divisions in the American political landscape, ... Yet many student opinions about the First Amendment and freedom of the press tend to stay remarkably consistent across these otherwise widely accepted political fault lines.”

Sometimes there aren't words, Benny knew. Sometimes there are hurts so deep that they exist in a country that has no spoken language, a place where all landscapes are blighted and no sun ever shines. Benny had left his footprints in the dust of that place.

To put a city in a book, to put the world on one sheet of paper -- maps are the most condensed humanized spaces of all...They make the landscape fit indoors, make us masters of sights we can't see and spaces we can't cover.