Argentina has decided to take its place in the global landscape. We need important companies of the world to finance and construct roads, ports, waterways, energy, trains. We're a huge country that only depends on trucks today. It's impossible.

“The USOC is currently addressing the landscape surrounding a possible bid for 2016. We are certainly following their lead in that respect. But before they re-evaluated, we made it part of the public record that we would certainly be interested in hosting the games at the next possible opportunity.”

“This event has special qualities that have enabled it to rise in the poker landscape and establish a uniqueness that the public can embrace. The head-to-head confrontation between players, who are now legitimate stars, provides compelling competition for players and makes for entertaining television.”

“You could go for miles without seeing an end to the procession of troops and horses and wagons, ... An eagle aloft in the April winds high over the landscape would only see something iridescently blue and side-winding that looked like the floodplain of a river.”

“The key for understanding transmission across the landscape is the bucks. We really need the males, so if people can refrain from shooting them it will help us continue an important study aimed at understanding how deer behavior affects the transmission of this disease.”

“That was really the driving concept, that we would have a place in the woods where one could look at art and embrace this great goals of ours, of art in nature. ... This enhances our landscape, whereas [the Phelps Knoll] building was going to relate to a civic enterprise.”

Our surmises regarding the subtle functions of neural processes within the brain are profoundly constrained by the fact that the brain did not evolve in order to understand itself. The complex organization of the brain evolved as a consequence of our sensorial and muscled engagement with the landscapes that surround us.

We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break.

We survey lush landscapes with variations not dissimilar to a so-called "imperfect" female body with absolute pleasure -- say, an expanse of Irish countryside with grassy rolling hills. But is it really so much uglier when it's made of flesh instead of soil?

Our landscapes connect us to our history; they are the source of our character as a peopl, as well as our health, our safety, and our prosperity. Natural resources enrich us economically, yes. But they also enrich us aesthetically and recreationally and culturally and spiritually.