Rebecca Solnit Landscape Quotations

Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished.

A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the continuum of landscape, mountains are discontinuity -- culminating in high points, natural barriers, unearthly earth.

For me, before I learned how to read I was really interested in story and in landscape and nature. I decided to become a writer almost as soon as I learned to read.

A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.

All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.