Unfamiliar Landscapes Quotes

There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.

People go on exploration; they're trying to find places that weren't known before. But it is an inevitable fact of research, as is in any other form of exploration of the unknown, that some people find they go down a dead end.

A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.

He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they acquire the vague and poetical quality which is only given to other things by time. He who has not traveled at all has this disadvantage – that all his memories are of things present somewhere, since the places with which all his memories are concerned are present.

There's a huge expanse of this continent that so seldom gets photographed.

What's important to me is offering perspectives into worlds that people don't often get to see. Do you know what I mean? From angles they don't often get to see.

Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.

New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.

The fairy tale always takes place in worlds that are between, unidentifiable.

If I'm telling an L.A. story, I want to tell a fresh L.A. story and show places that haven't been shown before.

The imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of parks and gardens... The phantoms which haunt a desert are want, and misery, and danger; the evils of dereliction rush upon the thoughts; man is made unwillingly acquainted with his own weakness, and meditation shows him only how little he can sustain, and how little he can perform.

This kind of art - the dystopic future kind of art - is designed to make you uncomfortable.