Iceland Landscape Quotes

It’s said to be the same all over the world, in all seven seas. Islands are matriarchies of a kind seldom seen on land. The men – as Iceland’s president Vigdís Finnbogadóttir remarked on one occasion when the subject arose – the men flee to their own preferred landscape, which is the sea.

The first men to set foot on the moon were sent to Iceland for acclimation—that’s how unlike to anything else the Icelandic landscape is.

From China to Turkey to Iceland to Kenya, they all depict landscapes. In fact, they all depict the same landscape. With few exceptions, the Most Wanted paintings show pleasant outdoor scenes centered on grassy areas with scattered copses of trees and plenty of blue sky. There are moderate hills and bodies of water, along with a few animals and people.

get very drunk. This is what refreshes him, participating in the illusion of another life, which is the same thing that we’re always seeking when we travel: to get outside of ourselves and imagine new possibilities, however unlikely or unreal they are. Iceland remains ideal for this purpose. “It’s what fantasies are made of,” Hansson says. “This untamed wild, this alien landscape, this vastness.