Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which makehimuniqueamong theanimals, sothat unlikethem he is not a figure in the landscapeöhe is the shaper of the landscape.

-Bronowski,Jacob
  In The Listener.

It is the drawback of all sea-side places that half the landscape is unavailable for purposes of human locomotion, being covered by useless water.

-Douglas, (George) Norman
Alone,'Mentone'.

Fortunately forpoetsandthosewho liketowalk about in the open air, the beauty of landscape is not something that can be reduced easily to basic geology or a few ready-wrapped phrases about what places are used for. Preference and prejudice creep in.

-Hillaby,John
  Journey through Britain.

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

-Hughes, Robert Studley Forrest
  In Time, 30 Dec.

The thing depicted is less stationary, even the object in itself is less discernible than it used to be. A landscape broken into and traversed in a car or an express train losesindescriptivevaluebut gainsinsynthetic value; the window of the railroad carriage or the windshield of the car, combined withthespeed at whichyou aretraveling, have changed the familiar look of things. Modern man registers one hundred times more impressions than did an eighteenth century artist.

-Le¤  ger, Fernand
Quoted in D Cooper The Cubist Epoch (1970).

So this is what our lives have been given to find, A language that can serve our purposes, A marvellous lucidity, a quality of fieryaery light, Flowing like clear water, flying like a bird Burning like a sunlit landscape.

-Grieve
  'The Task'.

   Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.

-Milton,John
c.1631 L'Allegro, l.69^76.

I wanted to know the true nature of the'otherness' I had been born into. It was not a European thing. I wanted to paint thegreat purityand implacability of the landscape. I wanted a visual form of the'otherness'of the thing not seen.

-Nolan, Sir Sidney Robert
Quoted in E Lynn Sidney Nolanö Australia (1979).

But could we not reach the point of highest perfection in a new kind of art, in this art of landscape, and perhaps reach a higher beauty than existed before?

-Runge, Philipp Otto
  Letter, quoted in L Eitner Neoclassicism and Romanticism 1750^1850 (1964).

[There is] an undercurrent of emotion bred of the deep acquaintance that can take a landscape and its inhabitantsto be a vocabulary, a set of wordlesssymbols effortlessly shared.

-Updike,John Hoyer
  On the artist Edward Hopper. In theWashington Post, 25 Jun.

These beauteous forms, Through a long absence, have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye: But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them, In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart.

-Wordsworth,William
  'Lines composed a few miles aboveTintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of theWye',1.22^8.