It goes against what our comprehensive plan promotes. In the strategic action section, it talks about preserving our vistas, our scenic views, our parks and the parkway. Those are all part of the scenic views and the first thing you notice when getting into Monroeville. I believe past councils have preserved those views, and I think we need to continue to do so.
Quotes about vistas (15 Quotes)
Star gazing is a connection to humanity's earliest curiosity about our place in the universe. It is practically impossible to see the stars from most cities, but now, clear night vistas in our national parks are an important resource that is literally fading from sight.
Why wouldn't you live here We've never done any heavy marketing. We never have enough inventory. Things are bought as fast as we can build them. It's an hour to the airport, a half hour to anything you need, a small town, no crime, beautiful vistas, hiking trails, good schools. It's a lifestyle everybody would like to have if they could.
Contrary to the WSJ report, however, the reset was underway months earlier than July 2004... Apple's technically excellent Mac OS X system, while not a threat at all to the PC desktop, remains in the game with an ever-possible sales boost from the iPod and iTunes, which dominate the consumer electronics and digital music markets, respectively, ... Much of Microsoft's problems are related to corporate culture, and that won't be fixed by Microsoft's recent reorganization. Microsoft is far too big a company with far too many levels of executives, to move quickly and seize on new market trends. Windows Vista, as a result, is fighting the OS battles of the last decade, reacting rather than being proactive and innovative. Mac OS X users, for example, can point to many of Vista's features and correctly note that they appeared first on Apple's system, sometimes years ago. For Microsoft, a company that desperately wants to be seen as an innovator, this situation is untenable... All that said, Windows Vista is now on track. Current beta builds of the system show an OS that is far more similar to Windows XP, with fewer new features and a much less elegant interface, than originally planned. But it's a solid-looking release...
The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.
I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke in me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
Twenty-five years from now, we'll have an opportunity to see whether Superstition Vistas turned out to be business as usual, or something very, very special.
After the meeting, I watched TV and saw all these ads, with cars on top of mountain peaks and fantastic vistas of the American West. It's like the cigarette ads that use sex to sell. All the average person does with an SUV is commute to work or the store. They're creating a market they claim the public is demanding.
Stunning vistas don't always produce eloquence.
To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.
In North Carolina, great care has been done to make sure that nothing has intruded on the vistas and if you just changed the car to a Cadillac Fleetwood, you easily could be back to the 1940s. But when I crossed the border into Virginia, I was dismayed to suddenly be looking into people's back yards and to see nondescript housing plopped here and there on the hillsides, which ended the motorway's magical vista.
I ask the reader to remember that what is most obvious may be most worthy of analysis. Fertile vistas may open out when commonplace facts are examined from a fresh point of view.
Democracy is something we must always be working at. It is a process never finished, never ending. And each new height gained opens broader vistas for the future. Thus it has been as one looks back over the sweep of history thus it must continue to be if democracy is to continue as a working tool in the hands of free men.
There is some risk in focusing too intently on the characteristics of individual bridges and in doing so overlooking the larger context. Vermont's extraordinary villages and countryside create that context, a colorful blending of natural and cultural resources. A great many of Vermont's bridges, even those that can be called ordinary by engineering standards, are distinctive pieces of this varied but fragile landscape. Many contribute to vistas along important river corridors others frame entrances to village centers or physically and visually join urban neighborhoods still others define form and space in unusual ways some simply mark places for travelers to pause on winding roads that disappear among the hills.