These scenery quotes will inspire you. Scenery, the general appearance of natural surroundings, esp. when these are beautiful or the painted background used to represent natural features or other surroundings on a theater stage or movie set.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging scenery quotes, scenery sayings, and scenery proverbs.
Best Scenery Quotes
- “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
- “Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going to fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.” ~ Eddie Cantor
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“There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.” ~ Washington Irving
- “Delight in the scenery of each day.” ~ Douglas Pagels
- “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy.” ~ Sylvia Plath
- “It is the sky that makes the earth so lovely at sunrise, and so splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over the earth the crystal-like ether, in the other the liquid gold.” ~ Thomas Cole
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“Mountains are the beginning and the end of all-natural scenery.” ~ John Ruskin
- “Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.” ~ John Keats , Nature scenery quotes
- “A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder of a treasure.” ~ Robert Doisneau
- “Scenery without solace is meaningless.” ~ Mitch Albom
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“A good-looking piece of scenery anywhere delights the eye and elevates the spirits. Some of us, crude creatures that we are, are merely excited; finer souls draw ethical and spiritual nutrients from the sight.” ~ Barbara Holland
- “A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.” ~ Galen Rowell
- “Far away in Montana, hidden from view by clustering mountain-peaks, lies an unmapped northwestern corner- the Crown of the Continent. The water from the crusted snowdrift which caps the peak of a lofty mountain there trickles into tiny rills, which hurry along north, south, east and west, and growing to rivers, at last pour their currents into three seas. From this mountain-peak the Pacific and the Arctic oceans and the Gulf of Mexico receive each its tribute. Here is a land of striking scenery.” ~ George Bird Grinnell
- “The most stupendous scenery ceases to be sublime when it becomes distinct, or in other words limited, and the imagination is no longer encouraged to exaggerate it. The actual height and breadth of a mountain or a waterfall are always ridiculously small; they are the imagined only that content us.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“When the autumn meets the tranquillity, there you can see the King of the Sceneries!” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
- “Scenery is here. Wish you were beautiful.” ~ David Foster Wallace
- “In both business and personal life, I’ve always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do.” ~ Ivanka Trump
- “Drive slow and enjoy the scenery – drive fast and join the scenery.” ~ Douglas Horton
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“Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
- “In both business and personal life, I’ve always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.” ~ Ivanka Trump
- “If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.” ~ Edmund Wilson
- “When you’re on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.” ~ Neil Diamond
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“Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “(About sweeping)…. What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends.” ~ Terry Pratchett
- “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
- “There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with palm trees. And there are cities like Detroit that have to work for a living.” ~ Elmore Leonard
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“I have looked on scenery as a strange and on scenery more grand, but on scenery at once so strange and so grand I have never looked and probably never shall again.” ~ Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
- “What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness.” ~ George Martin
- “If anybody starts using me as scenery, I’ll return to New York.” ~ Grace Kelly
- “No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
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“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
- “An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.” ~ Walter Winchell
- “I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too.” ~ Georgia May Jagger
- “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
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“Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.” ~ Lewis Grizzard
- “I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all because of her indomitable people. They are a race of pioneers who have almost beggared themselves to serve others. If the spirit of liberty should vanish in other parts of the union and support of our institutions should languish, it could all be replenished from the generous store held by the people of this brave little state of Vermont.” ~ Calvin Coolidge
- “An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props, and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.” ~ Jeremy Irons
- “I tell you all this because it’s worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success. You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It’s a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you’ll probably take a few.” ~ Bill Watterson
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“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
- “Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so much to me.” ~ Mary Wesley
- “I’ve run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people’s support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.” ~ Haruki Murakami
- “I think everybody else in Hollywood, including network execs, has the opportunity to ask for a raise or a change in scenery in a much shorter time frame than actors. But I do think the networks have to protect themselves.” ~ Jorja Fox
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“I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I’ll leave the scenery chewing to someone else” ~ Alan Ladd
- “When you’re home or you’re working, your mind just isn’t allowed to just roll on like it does when you’re watching the scenery go by. You’re hurdling through space but you’re not really moving. …It’s that dreaminess, that ability to just get dreamy while you’re looking out the window and you see something…and it makes you think of something else, and all of a sudden the words are just flowing out of you.” ~ Pegi Young
- “But I guess the nice thing about driving a car is that the physical act of driving itself occupies a good chunk of brain cells that otherwise would be giving you trouble overloading your thinking. New scenery continually erases what came before; memory is lost, shuffled, relabeled and forgotten. Gum is chewed; buttons are pushed; windows are lowered and opened. A fast moving car is the only place where you’re legally allowed to not deal with your problems. It’s enforced meditation and this is good.” ~ Douglas Coupland
- “Many people leave the country to see beautiful places. I just look out the window and see some of the most gorgeous scenery ever, right here in the USA.” ~ B. B. King
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“I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.” ~ Anthony Trollope
- “[Ritual] dwells in an invisible reality and gives this reality a vocabulary, props, costume, gesture, scenery. Ritual makes things separate, sets them apart from ordinary affairs and thoughts. Rituals need not be solemn, but they are formalized, stylized, extraordinary, and artificial. In the name of ritual, we can do anything. We can do astonishing acts. In the end, ritual gives us assurance about the unification of things.” ~ Barbara Myerhoff
- “No matter where i go, i still end up me. What’s missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i’m still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as i’ll come to defining myself.” ~ Haruki Murakami
- “I just want to see around beautiful things. I don’t realise how much I miss out on just seeing beautiful scenery.” ~ Alana Haim
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“I also grew up building theatrical scenery. I spent many years building scenery as a large part of my income and that allowed me to really develop my shop skills.” ~ Nick Offerman
- “There’s a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what’s down the road.” ~ Conor Oberst
- “In that tremendous flash of freedom, on my way to do The Thing for the first time, sanctioned by Almighty Harry, I receded, faded back into the scenery of my own dark self, whole the other me crouched and growled. I would do It at last, do what I had been created to do. And I did.” ~ Jeff Lindsay
- “Sometimes ‘great acting’ is just showing off – chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors – the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush.” ~ Denis Leary
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“I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “My experiences have taught me that things rarely improve with a simple change of scenery.” ~ Pittacus Lore
- “Throw open your window and let the scenery of clouds and sky enter your room.” ~ Yosa Buson
- “Veil, you see, if I vas to say something portentous like “zer dark eyes of zer mind” back home in Uberwald, zer would be a sudden crash of thunder,’ said Otto. ‘And if I vas to point at a castle on a towering crag and say “Yonder is . . . zer castle” a volf would be bound to howl mournfully.’ He sighed. ‘In zer old country, zer scenery is psychotropic and knows vot is expected of it. Here, alas, people just look at you in a funny vay.” ~ Terry Pratchett
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“The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “I don’t spend much on clothes. I buy old books. I tell myself I ought to save – it’s the classic Northern work ethic. I like good holidays, though. I’m a big fan of cruises. I love unpacking once and having the scenery change every day.” ~ Alan Titchmarsh
- “The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They’re right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see more, enjoy more, take delight in small things; it makes life richer. You feel more alive, less cocooned.” ~ Jane Wilson-Howarth
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“Wilderness without wildlife is just scenery.” ~ Lois Crisler
- “parents needn’t bother driving small children around to see the purple mountains’ majesties; the children will go right on duking it out in the back seat and whining for food as if you were showing them Cincinnati. No one under twenty really wants to look at scenery.” ~ Barbara Holland
- “Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs.” ~ Mark Twain
