Edward Burtynsky on manufactured landscapes

I even have dreams that take place in landscapes I recognize as the landscapes of Hungarian films, especially the early movies of Miklos Jancso.

Pam Warhurst How we can eat our landscapes

Vast, vivid landscapes are being gutted, left monochromatic gray.

Across the landscapes of Earth were dotted these giant mushrooms.

He drew people, anatomy, plants, animals, landscapes, buildings, water, everything.

And increasingly these landscapes are not just feeding us either.

The mycelium infuses all landscapes, it holds soils together, it's extremely tenacious.

So on the left, I took the roughness copied from many landscapes.

And from these early experiences as a child I learned to love landscapes.

Our desks, our computers, our pencils, our buildings all harbor resident microbial landscapes.

These are extraordinary landscapes, but few of us ever get to see them.

Consider briefly an important source of aesthetic pleasure, the magnetic pull of beautiful landscapes.

Charles Lullin, the grandfather, saw hundreds of different figures, different landscapes of all sorts.

The most beautiful landscapes I had seen in Asia were Sri Lanka and Bali.

To begin with, artificial landscapes, which I invented sort of, are used in cinema all the time.

In addition, measures are needed to ensure that decentralization does not lead to fragmented and dysfunctional landscapes.

When you walk across landscapes, it leaps up in the aftermath of your footsteps trying to grab debris.

And we are familiar with the landscapes of our own imagination, our inscapes. We've lived with them all our lives.

There are other parts of the brain which are specifically involved with the recognition and hallucination of buildings and landscapes.

They actually see landscapes and human beings and gods and dragons and serpent beings and goddesses and things like that.

We used the tools they use in Hollywood to make these fantastic landscapes that we all see in the movies.

Since the two lenses work simultaneously, they can distinguish obvious front and rear landscapes, producing a more shallow depth of field.

Marcel Proust said, The true voyage of discovery is not so much in seeking new landscapes as in having new eyes.

And after 17 years of photographing large industrial landscapes, it occurred to me that oil is underpinning the scale and speed.

These livelihoods benefit from the unique advantages of drylands round the year available solar energy, attractive landscapes and large wilderness areas.

(i) Physical integrity To maintain and enhance the quality of landscapes, both urban and rural, and avoid physical and visual degradation of the environment

And large scale has meant destruction of many of our landscapes, destruction of biodiversity still a lonely emu here in the Brazilian cerrado soybean fields.

It is characterized by developed landscapes with relatively high slopes which, in addition to the unbalanced distribution of precipitation, lead to an unbalanced off flow.

5. A new CAP should include a policy to safeguard Europe s landscapes. But a cultural heritage should not be maintained everywhere, nor should it ignore cost.

Imagine if a team of surgeons could fly into the brain, as though it was a world, and see tissues as landscapes, and hear blood density levels as music.

By creating engineered micro landscapes to infiltrate in them, we don't prevent them from being used as emergency vehicle parking spaces, because, of course, a firetruck can come and park there.

Secondly, please create please, please create edible landscapes so that our children start to walk past their food day in, day out, on our high streets, in our parks, wherever that might be.

Accepting his 2005 TED Prize, photographer Edward Burtynsky makes a wish that his images stunning landscapes that document humanity's impact on the world help persuade millions to join a global conversation on sustainability.

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I got out of the car, and I stood up, and it was a coal mining town. I did a 360 turnaround, and that became one of the most surreal landscapes I've ever seen.

And to me this was a key component that somehow, through this medium of photography, which allows us to contemplate these landscapes, that I thought photography was perfectly suited to doing this type of work.

People that have partnered with us have given us new eyes, not only on what exists the new landscapes at the bottom of the sea but also how we think about life on the planet itself.

And you really have to be able to withstand conditions you have to drive into the desert, you will see landscapes in many cases you can see from what we've discovered that nobody else has ever seen.

And as more of us move into cities, more of that natural world is being transformed into extraordinary landscapes like the one behind me it's soybean fields in Mato Grosso in Brazil in order to feed us.

While forest biodiversity continues to decline as a result of deforestation, forest degradation and associated fragmentation of forest habitats, strong efforts are now being made to reverse this trend by restoring the forest functions in degraded forest landscapes.

In this effort, companies must recognize that both demand and supply factors are or will be driving the transformation of their competitive landscapes. On the demand side, consumers expect a lot more from the products and services they use.

And then the third one is this idea of the end of oil, this entropic end, where all of our parts of cars, our tires, oil filters, helicopters, planes where are the landscapes where all of that stuff ends up?

But if these solutions are to be adopted at the necessary scale, environmentalists and city officials alike will have to expand the scope of their traditional activities. Environmentalists will have to embrace the idea that conservation does not only mean protecting pristine landscapes.

Restoring just 15 of degraded forest landscapes worldwide could generate up to 85 billion worth of ecosystem services every year, mostly benefiting rural and underprivileged communities. Estimates of the value of the Mau forest complex to the Kenyan economy, for example, are 1.5 billion a year.