I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth and sky, matter and spirit. Vast open spaces speak best to this craving, the spaces I myself first found in the desert and then in the western grasslands.
Rebecca SolnitTags: nature landscape page-49
Eduardo Galeano notes that America was conquered, but not discovered, that the men who arrived with a religion to impose and dreams of gold never really knew where they were, and that this discovery is still taking place in our time.
Rebecca SolnitTags: nature america page-66 landscape
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.
Rebecca SolnitTags: nature walking mountains landscape page-135
To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.
Ansel AdamsTags: photography landscape landscapes
Landscapes we must owe something to the eye of the beholder.
Mary LascellesA path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.
Rebecca SolnitLandscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
Ansel AdamsTags: photography landscape landscaping
Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where water comes from and garbage goes, consumption or conservation. They map our lives.
Rebecca SolnitThe planting of [orchards] represents a reduction of a complex ecology into the monocultural grid of modern agriculture, and the transformation of a complex symbiosis with the land into the simpler piecework or agricultural labour for surplus and export.
Rebecca SolnitTags: fruit page-55 landscape orchards
As Elizabeth Blackmar and Ray Rosenzweig wrote in their magisterial history of [Central Park in NYC]: 'The issue of demoncratic access to the park has also been raised by the increasing number of homeless New Yorkers. Poor people--from the 'squatters' of the 1850s to the 'tramps' of the 1870s and 1890s to the Hooverville residents of the 1930s--have always turned to the park land for shelter...The growing visibility of homeless people in Central Park osed in the starkest terms the contradiction between Americans' commitment to democratic space and their acquiescence in vast disparities of wealth and power.
Rebecca SolnitTags: democracy landscape homeless parks 94 central-park
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