Definition of Scenery

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Scenery

Assemblage of scenes; the paintings and hangings representing the scenes of a play; the disposition and arrangement of the scenes in which the action of a play, poem, etc., is laid; representation of place of action or occurence.

Sum of scenes or views; general aspect, as regards variety and beauty or the reverse, in a landscape; combination of natural views, as woods, hills, etc.

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Scenery Quotations

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.
Deepak Chopra

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
John Keats

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
John Ruskin

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
Robert Louis Stevenson

If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
Lewis Grizzard

If anybody starts using me as scenery, I'll return to New York.
Grace Kelly

A lot of people tend to chew up the scenery. I'm a firm believer in less is more, especially on the big screen.
Mark Wahlberg

Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.
Jim Henson

Scenery Translations

scenery in Afrikaans is landskap
scenery in Dutch is landschap
scenery in Finnish is maisema
scenery in French is paysage
scenery in German is Szenerie
scenery in Italian is ornamento
scenery in Spanish is paisaje, escenario
scenery in Swedish is sceneri, landskap

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