Definition of Landscape

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Landscape

A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.

A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual or fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc.

The pictorial aspect of a country.

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Landscape Quotations

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
Henry David Thoreau

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
Ansel Adams

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.
Woodrow Wilson

What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.
Annie Leibovitz

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
Alice Walker

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
Leonard Cohen

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
John Ruskin

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
Henri Frederic Amiel

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.
Paul Cezanne

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
Edith Wharton

Landscape Translations

landscape in Afrikaans is landskap
landscape in Dutch is landschap
landscape in Finnish is maisema
landscape in French is paysage
landscape in German is Landschaft
landscape in Italian is paesaggio
landscape in Norwegian is landskap
landscape in Portuguese is paisagem
landscape in Spanish is paisaje, panorama
landscape in Swedish is landskap

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