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5. "Going to the mountains is going home." 6. "The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark." 7. "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in ...
Nature quotes. “Swim through the serene summer sky.”. — Virgil. “As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see ...
Nan Shepherd. Anna " Nan " Shepherd (11 February 1893 – 27 February 1981) was a Scottish Modernist writer and poet, best known for her seminal mountain memoir, The Living Mountain, based on experiences of hill walking in the Cairngorms. This is noted as an influence by nature writers who include Robert Macfarlane and Richard Mabey. [ 1]
Flower paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe. Georgia O'Keeffe, Red Canna, 1919, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia. The American artist Georgia O'Keeffe is best known for her close-up, or large-scale flower paintings, [ 1] which she painted from the mid-1920s through the 1950s. [ 2] She made about 200 paintings of flowers of the more than 2,000 ...
The Land of Little Rain has been published six times. The first publication was in 1903 by Houghton Mifflin.Subsequent publications include a 1950 abridged version with photographs by Ansel Adams (also by Houghton Mifflin), a 1974 illustrated version by E. Boyd Smith published by University of New Mexico Press, a 1988 edition with an introduction by Edward Abbey published as part of the ...
Show love for our planet with these inspiring Earth Day quotes. They're all about nature, the environment, and helping to spread awareness on April 22.
A natural landscape is the original landscape that exists before it is acted upon by human culture. [ note 1] The natural landscape and the cultural landscape are separate parts of the landscape. [ note 2] However, in the 21st century, landscapes that are totally untouched by human activity no longer exist, [ 3] so that reference is sometimes ...
The Velliangiri hills form a major range in the Western Ghats in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. The seven hills with altitudes ranging from 520 m – 1840 m are bordered by the plains of Coimbatore district to the east, the Palakad district of Kerala on the western boundary, the Nilgiri mountains to the north, and the Siruvani hills on the southern boundary.