{"quotes":[{"text":"I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and what trees and seasons smelled like -- how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich.","author":"John Steinbeck","tags":["childhood","landscape","memory","plants","time"],"id":788,"author_id":"John+Steinbeck"},{"text":"There is no place like the beach... Where the land meets the sea and the sea meats the sky.","author":"Umair Siddiqui","tags":["admiring","beach","inspiring","landscape","love","nature","ocean","peace","sea","seaside","sky","sun","sunrise","sunrise-qoutes","sunset","sunset-qouts","travel"],"id":9269,"author_id":"Umair+Siddiqui"},{"text":"She could see all of Ferenwood from here: the rolling hills, the endless explosion of color cascading down and across the lush landscape. Reds and blues: Maroon and ceruleans. Yellow and tangerine and violet and aquamarine. Every hue held a flavor, a heartbeat, a life. She took a deep breath and drew it all in.","author":"Tahereh Mafi","tags":["adventure","beauty","color","contrast","explosion","hue","landscape","otherworldiness","view"],"id":21523,"author_id":"Tahereh+Mafi"},{"text":"There are places which exist in this world beyond the reach of imagination.","author":"Daniel J. Rice","tags":["beauty","environment","exist","imagination","landscape","marvel","nature","places","wilderness","world"],"id":23396,"author_id":"Daniel+J.+Rice"},{"text":"...Seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of a framework of bone and a network of arteries, the earth's crust is structured in mountain ridges, river, creeks, and gullies.","author":"Reinhold Messner","tags":["earth","landscape","mountains"],"id":25355,"author_id":"Reinhold+Messner"},{"text":"...Landscape is a work of the mind. Its scenery is built up as much from strata of memory as from layers of rock.","author":"simon schma","tags":["landscape","memory","nature","outdoors","scenery"],"id":38872,"author_id":"simon+schma"},{"text":"The light irradiates white peaks of Annapurna marching down the sky, in the great rampart that spreads east and west for eighteen hundred miles, the Himalaya- the alaya (abode, or home) of hima (snow).Hibiscus, frangipani, bougainvillea: seen under snow peaks, these tropical blossoms become the flowers of heroic landscapes. Macaques scamper in green meadow, and a turquoise roller spins in a golden light. Drongos, rollers, barbets, and white Eqyptian vulture are the common birds, and all have close relatives in East Africa.","author":"Peter Matthiessen","tags":["beauty","interrelatedness","landscape","light","mindfulness","mountains","nature","sky","snow","spirit"],"id":39101,"author_id":"Peter+Matthiessen"},{"text":"Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring as she flung azaleas like a girl throwing rice at a desperate wedding. In dazzling profusion, Colleton ripened in a gauze of sweet gardens and the town ached beneath a canopy of promissory fragrance.","author":"Pat Conroy","tags":["landscape","nostalgia","small-town","south-carolina","spring"],"id":43603,"author_id":"Pat+Conroy"},{"text":"Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.","author":"Harper Lee","tags":["dill","inspirational","landscape","mockingbird","scout","season","summer"],"id":44832,"author_id":"Harper+Lee"},{"text":"Landscapes we must owe something to the eye of the beholder. ","author":"Mary Lascelles","tags":["landscape","nature"],"id":44976,"author_id":"Mary+Lascelles"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":136,"pages":14,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}