[11] Cognizant of the music's deeper aural qualities he said: "On the whole, On Land is quite a disturbed landscape: some of the undertones deliberately threaten the overtones, so you get the pastoral prettiness on top, but underneath there's a dissonance that's like an impending earthquake".

[12] In the liner notes, he suggested listening to the album through "a three-way speaker system that is both simple to install and inexpensive, and which seems to work very well on any music with a broad stereo image", a diagram of which was included.

The album makes reference to definite geographical places, such as Lizard Point, the exposed southernmost tip of mainland Britain in Cornwall.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art because it was abstract, not figurative.

[15] "Leeks Hills", Eno explains, "is a little wood (much smaller now than when I was young, and this not merely the effect of age and memory) which stands between Woodbridge and Melton.